Re: What do you like about your i? Was->RE: Saving the System i:Fight Rather Than Switch

On 12/8/06, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have some negatives, want to read them? ;)

Well never get better until we know what is wrong :-)  Note that your list
of negatives will be picked apart piece by piece, but I suspect you expect
that;-)

What are the other things that the iSeries is lacking in your mind?

the 16 meg size limit on space allocations is one. In an XML world,
where strings can hold an entire file system, this is a major
limitation.  The whole .NET/managed code framework that Windows has is
very good. Think of how much better the i5 would be if Java, CL, RPG
and SQL procedures could work with common memory management and
calling conventions.

But it comes down to price and speed.  You can actually use ILE and
the pre compiler APIs to write a managed code version of RPG and CL.
It is just you need a lot more than 1200 CPW to run it.

-Steve