RE: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

Trevor,

I've told you a millions times, don't exaggerate! :)

DR2

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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 8:46 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

Bruce,

It has been suggested to Steve 1,905,678,432 times to use some of the
methods available to submit requests so they will be considered by IBM.
However, that would reduce the ability for Steve to whine on every public
forum he can find.

Do you really want to take away his only joy in life?
Trevor


On 4/11/08 5:53 PM, "Bruce Vining" <bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve,

IBM i has not been fundementally improved for the last 10 yrs.

What do you consider to be a "fundamental improvement"? LPAR for

instance

was 1999, I believe (though I admit I'm a bit shaky on this one) IASP was
1999, PASE was 2000,... Database support for BLOB, CLOB, datalinks,

UDF,etc

is in the last ten years, ... The 8-byte pointer support (again a little

shaky

on this) in 2004...

Bruce

PS - I admit to being in somewhat a foul mood this afternoon. When I

left

the Wisconsin User Conference this morning I had at least glanced through

all

my mail. Upon my return to Rochester I found over 100 new e-mails, all

too

many of which had this subject line and a continuation of a discussion I

have

seen too many time (in my opinion) on this list. Product requirements

really

need to be fed into IBM using DCRs, COMMON requirement requests, and the

like.

Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/11/08, Bruce Vining wrote:

Steve,

In light of some of the notes that fly when you post on 16MB spaces and

10

character names, have you considered prefacing your wishes with:

" I realize that i5/OS with the terapace storage and data models supports
storage addressing simliar to other systems -- for instance memory
allocations of up to 2GB, the use of 8-byte integers as pointer values,

etc;

that the IFS supports file/object names similiar to other systems -- for
instance a file name such as
'/ThisIsAFairlyLongNameWithALongExtension.ThoughPerhapsNotTooLong'; that

a

given job (or even a careful individual program) can utilize both

teraspace

and single level storage concurrently, etc. but I would like to see IBM
extend the traditional Single Leval Store and library system (which is
admittedly unique to this platform) to also incorporate the capabilities

of

i5/OS teraspace and IFS. This would represent an architectural capability

far

beyond other platforms and help negate criticism in the marketplace."

Just a proposal.

it is a fine proposal and that is what I have been trying to say all
along. just to be realistic, no one had to tell the hardware
designers at IBM how and why to build the world class POWER6 systems.
the genius software engineers who created the S/38 did what they did
on their initiative. IBM i has not been fundementally improved for the
last 10 yrs. IBM will not open source the OS. Either they improve it
or the capabilities of this most excellent of hardware platforms will
be wasted.

-Steve