RE: Biggest issue facing YOUR IBM i shop?

Jerry,

You need to let your customers know that the IBM i is dying.
Haven't you heard?

John


-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Draper [mailto:midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 4:39 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Biggest issue facing YOUR IBM i shop?

IBMi is here to stay.

It is a robust DB platform that competes admirably to the
*IX/Oracle solution.

My customers are buying new Power 7 models. The power and
stability you get for the price is driving these purchases.

Their app teams are fast developing browser based
applications. The back end continues to be managed by RPIG.

There might be hundreds or thousands of simultaneous browser
connections and 10 or 15 green screen sessions.

I know of one shop with +- 10 huge IBMi each carved into
about 7-8 LPARS (typical system is 34TB of DASD, 768GB
memory, and some 100,000 simultaneous users).

These systems are growing.

Jerry




On 8/12/2013 1:25 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

The case that can be made is that the software is where

the

competitive advantage lies today. Sure, there is no

reason to write

your own word processing program or build your own

shopping cart, but

if your company believes their business problems are best

solved by

techies who only know software and who have no idea what

the company's

base business is, then competitors who maximize their

software will eat your company's lunch.

Its all about understanding and using the tools. Does UPS

build their

own trucks? No. But their people do understand trucks;

they do make

the rules about how their trucks are made.

imho


On 8/12/2013 3:08 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

Joel Stone wrote:
Currently we run anything and EVERYTHING, a lot on the

iseries.

That's a hard place to be in. Managing disparate

technologies is perhaps the most difficult and costly
challenge facing most IT organizations today.

In the next few years, the organization will be moving

to a more single focused platform.

That makes sense to me. IT has become too complicated,

costly, and convoluted.

There are only two choices that we know of for a large

company: JDE or SAP.

What about VAI, Infor, and Harris Data? I'd suggest

looking at VAI.

I asked if re-writing in RPG or COBOL was an option

being

considered. I knew it was a silly question, but it was

received

like a suggestion to dump computers and go back to paper

and

pencils.

IBM i is not the problem. It's still the best business

platform out there, and you can do modern things with it.
RPG is not the problem, either. It's still the best business
language; you can create web applications, along with batch
an other relevant types of applications.

Management looks at this as being in the software

business

- which they don't want to be.

That makes sense in most cases. I gather that doesn't

help you. You must want to be in the software business. I do
too.

--
Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
iSeries, Network, and Connectivity Specialists -- iSeries,
LAN/WAN/VPN Representing WinTronix, Synapse, Netopia, HiT,
and others .....
(415) 457-3431; www.trilosoft.com

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