Re: what was the single mgmt decision made in mid-1990s.

Jon,

Say it ain't so! Just because there are shops in the dark ages means that none of us should move forward? Realistically, there are some functions that are best served up by IBM, since they rely (or benefit greatly) on low level functions in the OS. Examples include: Journaling, Save/Restore, High Availability (sorry, HA vendors), DB2 functions and generating the GUI data stream.

BTW, for purposes of this discussion, when I say GUI I mean HTML, CSS, Javascript.

-mark


At 2/17/09 06:23 PM, you wrote:

On 17-Feb-09, at 5:03 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> We can and have shown IBM a long list of anecdotal evidence to
> support our case for a native GUI. I don't understand why it hasn't
> been implemented 10+ years ago!

Perhaps in part because so many i shops still don't use what they have
been given? There are still large numbers of shops with little or no
RPG IV - heck even major ISVs like Oracle (JDE) don't use it. Even
less use SQL. Same holds for Java and PHP.

I love the box - but I find it hard to blame IBM for everything when
as a community we don't use what we've got.

Jon Paris

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