The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

The iSeries supports pretty much every character set available.  Certainly
as many as your standard Windows/*nix box.

The QSYS library system is the only file system that has the 10 character
limit, and that's frankly all a business system needs.  Long directory/path
structures are needed for text-file-based operating systems that are
fconfigured with thousands of little files, as opposed to an OS with an
integrated database.

But in any case, the iSeries supports long file names just fine in the IFS.

The fact that the iSeries supports all those technologies IN ADDITION TO all
the technologies offered by other operating systems is a benefit, not a
disadvantage.

Joe

P.S. I should start a cult: The Church of the Perpetual Myth of iSeries
Obsolescence.  I'd have to rename it every time IBM renamed the box, but
that might actually be helpful from a tax (evasion) standpoint.


> From: Keith Carpenter
> 
> EBCDIC ?
> library/object file system with 10 character names ?
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, changing these things probably has little ROI.
> 
> 
> Michael Jacobsen wrote:
> >> Where do people get the idea that the iSeries system is so obsolete?
> >
> > Green screen?