RE: How difficult is it for application running on Windows to be moved to AS/400?

That's a very loaded question, and the answer is "it depends".

If you're porting over a C program that runs in batch or as a service on Windows, it's fairly straightforward for anyone who has gone through the learning curve of doing it once. If it relies on ASCII in and out, you compile it for PASE which is exactly the same as compiling for Linux or AIX.

If you have an interactive program written in Visual Basic, you have a lot more work to do. But then you have equally more work to port it to AIX or Linux.

By the way, we call it IBMi now, not AS/400 any longer.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vikhyath Kamath
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:44 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: How difficult is it for application running on Windows to be moved to
AS/400?

Hi,

Was just wondering how difficult is it for application running on Windows to
moved accross to AS/400?

Is it easier for them to be moved to other platforms like Linux or AIX?

Also, are more new customers opting for Linux rather than AS/400?

Thanks and Regards,
Vikhyath.
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