Re: IBM not investing in i5/OS was: iSociety

Hi Joe,

I've been skipping a lot of this because I don't have access to EGL, but then you state that "finally IBM has given us a decent GUI interface". Where is it? And if IBM is giving it to us, why is Rational supporting it? At least that's the implication I hear when you say "neither of those is going to get the same tooling support, especially not from Rational."

Mostly what I'd like to hear is that yes, IBM is giving us this wonderful GUI, and it's included with all the compilers etc. I'm guessing that it's not. I'd love to play with some of this stuff.

I did get to sit in on a training session for RPGsp, which seems to have a pretty nice IDE, and lots of wizards for generating typical programs, but I haven't actually used it to do anything that anyone would use in production yet.

*Peter Dow* /
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Joe Pluta wrote:

From: Mark Allen

That would fit for the National Enquirer or the Cincinnati Enquirer (more
appropriately known as the Adquirer......

<smirk>

Okay, anyway, point taken.

Enough of the barrage between Aaron and me. Sorry about that. I just get a
little het up because finally IBM has given us a decent GUI interface with a
powerful tool that actually integrates properly with i5/OS (and it will only
get more powerful, believe me). Please don't hate it because it's J2EE;
J2EE is IBM's direction and if you want IBM tools, then you have to accept
it.

If you DON'T want J2EE, there are other options like PHP and RPG-CGI, but
neither of those is going to get the same tooling support, especially not
from Rational.

Joe