RE: California Software/Infinite Corporation

One sad note about moving off the iSeries platform - I spoke with Charlie
Massoglia a couple of weeks ago in regard to Laurin Bruck's passing away.

Charlie's employer will be off the platform completely by this time next
year. And so will Charlie. Another stalwart will be riding off into the
sunset.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger
Harman
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 3:15 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: California Software/Infinite Corporation

I have to agree with Buck. Things can change.


Next week will mark one year at my new employer. JBA shop still running a
lot of RPG-III code. New code was written using RPGLE source types but
still in fixed format and not leveraging any ILE features/benefits.


But, when I was given an assignment to rewrite a critical billing/reporting
function it was all in /free with a couple of service programs, CL
subroutines, etc. Now, my boss says he wants to leverage those service
programs for a number of other areas that need the same complex calculations
done. We'll be trying to do everything in a modular fashion as the
opportunity presents itself.


And, I pressed for RDi. One of our system admins made it a point at the
last COMMON to attend a couple of RDi presentations and he came back a
believer on our behalf. Now, with the new budget cycle, we're getting
licenses for all 8 of us!! Plus, he came back a believer in the IBM i
moniker (it is/was still known as AS400 here). All our helpdesk references
have been changed to IBM i and we're making an effort to promote that in the
organization.


So, yes, things can change. It's exciting to see it happen. After 30
years on this platform, I feel more excited than ever about coming to work.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
OCEAN User Group

<http://www.ocean400.org>






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To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
From: kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: California Software/Infinite Corporation
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:31:40 -0500

On 2/26/2015 3:06 PM, Alan Campin wrote:

Again and again I hear the same thing. I am not going to call a

procedure,

I am not going to use anything modern. I won't use anything unless it has

a

program call. The field name has to be 6 characters. Just create files.
Don't worry about normalizing. I will not use SQL. On and On.

Unfortunately I just don't see it changing.

At the genuine risk of my employment here, I work for a bureaucratic,
hide bound, 'We've always done it that way', 'If it ain't broke don't
fix it' sort of organisation. We are the poster child for the situation
you are describing.

It's changing here.

It's changing here because my colleagues and I are changing it. We
aren't asking for permission to write service programs - we are writing
them. Our less developed colleagues are coming along for the ride
because they have no choice. We got tired of the Mexican standoff and
simply started doing the right thing, permission-in-advance be damned.

I was once a junior programmer. I was once afraid to make waves. Now
I'm old, and the waves aren't so scary. This list in particular is
frequented by programmers who are more senior than junior, whose voices
carry weight, whose opinions matter.

It's changing here. It can change elsewhere too.

--buck

As usual I have slaughtered many electrons in vain.
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