PASE was: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

> from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
> subject: PASE was: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence
> 
> PASE sucks!  IBM sticks no support into it and have crippled it up 
like a possum on > a freeway.
> 
> We have an ancient version of TSM back when it was called ADSM.  It 
was written for ?>native OS/400 and it still runs fine on V5R3.  
However we have a newer version of TSM >(not the newest, but the 
latest supported in i5/os) and it constantly has issues with >V5R3.  
The newer version was written for  PASE.
> 
> I think we can sum it done to Debbie Fields comment (formerly of 
Mrs. Fields >cookies):  "Good enough, never is."  IBM now migrates 
packages over from aix and >Linux to PASE under i5/os.  No attempts at 
enhancing the performance are completed.  >No attempts at making it 
more robust  are  completed.  But to IBM it's good enough.  >It will 
let the customer limp along on i5/os until IBM converts them to Linux 
or >aix.  Can you imagine the horse pucky we'd have now if Domino was 
just being >converted to i5/os? 
> They'd just get it to run under PASE and consider that good enough. 
Thank 
> heavens Domino was converted before PASE became the altar that it is 
now.  Now it's >robust.  Heck, the other platforms learned a lot from 
the  i5  migration and put those >changes into their platforms in R7 
to get better performance.
> 
> And Domino sold a LOT of 400's.
> 

Well, maybe if they had converted Domino from Unix/Linux we'd be able 
to get the DUCS connector for Domino on the iSeries <sarcasm>.  Just 
got work back from IBM that my Enhancement SPR for DUCS support was 
turned down.

I'm with you... thought there were alot of Domino 400's out there.