Re: Moving from Green screen app to GUI because of push back

I just became aware that the brevity of my last post led to some
misunderstandings. For one thing, the RFE that I recently submitted had
nothing to do with IBM providing a native GUI solution bundled with the OS.
Mine was about IBM enabling small independent storage pools to be
configured in Navigator. My RFE was declined and closed by IBM in less than
48 hours. That must be a new record!

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=114085

The moral to that story is that when submitting an RFE to IBM, and
requesting that they invest in something new, you should be prepared to
make a case that can withstand opposition.


On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What, specifically, would this GUI do? What would it look like? Would it
have its own .css file files but different tags? Would you see it as
something that competes with javascript? php. Python?

Good questions. Having myself just filled out the form at the RFE site, I
can attest to the type of detail that IBM is looking for in order to
justify their investment in new technology. They look for things that meet
the needs of many if not most customers. They look to satisfy the
requirements of IBM shareholders.

Hopefully somebody like Alex Roytman doesn't read the RFE and say:

Hey, they appropriated all our ideas and are cajoling IBM to undercut us.
So, that is what they meant by "no offence to 3rd party vendors". Gives a
new meaning to the term "business partner".

In regard to IBM shareholders, they appear to have been burned by past
investments, such as EGL. I can imagine IBM trusting someone like Bob
Cancilla, based on his vast industry experience and standing in the IBM i
community, assuring IBM that RPG shops are going to lap this stuff up.
Without it, the platform is doomed.

Sometimes, developers of in-house ERP systems simply can't keep up with
the functional and non-functional things that vendors have been putting
into their packages. There's not much that IBM can do about that.