Re: "IBM i Modernization" & PASE

[John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/2/2016 11:53 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
> > Do any of the language environments that run under PASE (i.e. Java, PHP,
> > Python, Perl, Ruby, Node.js) run in 64 bit mode?
>
> I wouldn't personally put Java in that same list, although I understand
> why someone would.

I also understand how Java might reasonably be part of that list or
left off that list. Most of the time, I don't include Java with the
others.

Nathan, I am wondering what's the significance of 64-bit mode? For the
vast majority of things that you would do with any of those languages
(especially if you leave Java off the list), bitness is of minimal
relevance. For that matter, I think the overwhelming majority of RPG
programmers also do not have to worry about bitness.

> That said, I can do some Very Cool Things with Java and RPG without
> having to resort to PASE at all.

You can also do Very Cool Things with (iSeries)Python without
resorting to PASE at all. That includes calling RPG programs and
getting parameters back from them.

I've always been disappointed that IBM didn't either take over
iSeriesPython or collaborate with its creator (surely he would have
been amenable to at least one of those options). Then there would be a
real shot at fixing some of its rough edges (like getting service
program calls to work at least as well as standalone program calls).

John Y.