Re: When an AS/400 is called an iSeries

Once there was an elephant
who tried to use a telephant.
No no, I mean an elephone
who tried to use a telephone....
Dear me, I am not certain, quite,
that even now I've got it right.

OK, so just about the time I get used to the idea that an AS/400 is now an
iSeries, they don't call them that anymore? We just bought an i520 running
V5R4. It isn't even in production yet, and already I have the name wrong?

I know (or at least I thought I knew) that "Series i" was the name of the
platform. I thought I knew that an "i5" was a specific subset -- perhaps
the only one, for the moment -- of the "iSeries" family of hardware. So I
was supposed to be safe calling it an "iSeries". Not so, apparently.

When the whatchamacallit is up and running, I'll have to study up on the
nomenclature. Sure is fast, though, whatever it is.

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin - 630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/08/2007 04:42:08 PM:

Darrell,

Where did you get your iSeries? They have not sold a new one of them

since

Jan 2006. Don't you mean an i5 - the latest in the System i server

family?

And, could you not say - it is like Windows 98 and Windows Vista. Same
family, but you cannot call Vista the same old 98.

Trevor



On 6/8/07 5:24 PM, "Darrell A Martin" <DMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi:

It had to happen. I mentioned to an x86 geek friend that we were

"moving

from our AS/400 to a new iSeries". (For your info, Model 720, V5R2 -->
i520, V5R4.) The response was, "Yuck. Platform conversions are such a

pain

in the ..." I carefully, and in terms that might actually meet with
approval from some of the members of this list, explained that it was

not

a conversion at all. The AS/400 is part of the Series i platform.

Blank stare. Two or three slow blinks. Then a look of comprehension.

"Ah ha. So the iSeries is just the old AS/400 with a different

marketing

logo? I thought it was new technology."

So much for my feeble attempt at politically correct terminology. I'm
going back to my practice of calling every box what it was called when

it

was built, which makes more sense anyway. And yes, I am HAPPY to be

moving

to a brand-spanking-new iSeries. (Fortunately, many of my skills will
transfer.)

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin - 630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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