<channeling Trevor>
The iseries went poof years ago. However Power Systems running IBM i will
be around for a long time to come
</channeling>
From: Alan Shore <ashore@xxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 03/28/2012 02:00 PM
Subject: RE: RPGILE programmers and the future of iSeries
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Hopefully the i-series won't go poof because I CANT afford to retire for
ANOTHER 30 years
Alan Shore
Programmer/Analyst, Direct Response
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C:(631) 880-8640
"If you're going through Hell, keep going" - Winston Churchill
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [
mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Draper
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 2:47 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RPGILE programmers and the future of iSeries
How can executive management justify keeping iSeries systems when the pool
of RPG programmers are of retirement age or so?
Is that a myth promulgated by *IX PHP folk?
At one place I am hearing that one justification for moving off of an
iSeries is that no "younger" programmers are interested in learning RPG or
it derivitives (ie: RPGILE).
Anyone else encountered this argument?
My view is that RPGILE is just another coding system with a learnable
syntax and that much of the user experience is via front ends written in
java or .net.
The iSeries is a great db engine serving up data to whoever wants it (or
is authorized to it). Tried, true, and trustworthy.
If we are all going to retire at the same moment will the iSeries go poof?
Jerry
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