Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Trevor Perry:
I wrote about AS/400 Syndrome ...

"Maybe, this ability to see no further than your own technology
is a disease? Letʼs call it AS/400 syndrome, and work on a cure!"

"Are you stuck in the past? Do you have AS400 Syndrome?"

In the past, I entered "save" in the command line of SEU and my program was 
saved to disk in the blink of an eye.

In the present, I press CTR+S in Websphere Developer Studio Client and am 
somewhat entertained by  three (3) iterations of the progress bar (growing and 
shrinking, growing and shrinking, growing and shrinking) while I wait for the 
file to be saved.

You have a great site, Trevor.  And I appreciate the recognition the System i 
platform is gaining from it.  But in some ways, the past is better than the 
present.

The AS/400 faithful are a discriminating group.  They've learned for example 
that native record level access is better than SQL for retrieving records by 
key, updating them, and writing them.

The key is leveraging the the past to ensure the future, not discarding the 
past for things that grab immediate attention, but have less intrinsic value.

Nathan.


 
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