Re: Some fodder for marketing, perhaps

On 1/1/06, fbocch2595@xxxxxxx <fbocch2595@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was a systems programmer on mainframes and the as400 was great compared to 
> that.  All aspects of the system can be managed by 1 or 2 folks.  We all the 
> mtbf stats and reliability.
>
> Businesses can save $ by using it, even though cost of ownership seems high, 
> we know it can run w/less people and that's what finance likes, I guess.
>
> I hope that some of the big names in as400 land respond to that email to put
> the as400's best foot forward...or is it a losing battle?

I think it is up to IBM management. if they invest in the as400 part
of the iSeries the system can be renewed and be a success again.  If
they continue their policy of neglecting our side of the system the
iSeries will morph into a pSeries and rpg, ile, display files and
libraries will die off.

hopefully in v5r4 the single threaded restriction on jobs in qinter
will be lifted. That way Java could be used for green screen
programming.  If IBM can get premium prices for systems that run green
screen applications, doesn't it make sense to improve the OS that
those applications run on?

-Steve