Re: IBM I as a web server?

The reason the platform is dying is that IBM has its head up its rear from
a marketing standpoint. Oracle markets the heck out of overpriced and
horrible code.

I pointed out to the head of IBM Rochester MN once at a conference - two
hundred folks having dinner together - that if God had used the marketing
plan for SEX that IBM was using for the iSeries there would have been three
maybe four people in the room.

The lack of a internet interface like is used for C#.Net is a huge killer.
Put the development tool for C#.Net inside the IFS and give the IFS some
real tools.

When people talk costs of servers they forget the AS400 or iSeries sets on
a different chip set than what all SQL Server and Oracle operations sit on.
Thus veritably no viruses. Then add single level store with RAID-5 and how
hard could it be to sell this platform. Every local Oracle users group
meets in an Oracle office with money for food and drink.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:27 PM Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Ugh... You're describing my week. We're interviewing for a contract
position again and the quality is so depressing.

Examples: Converting a MDY display date to CYMD with a mix of %int(),
%char() and %subst(). Code with /free directives included, indentation
that is atrocious. Redisplay a screen (yes, our ERP is green screen) in
the middle of a select construct.

Not one has taken the opportunity to do **free or to use RDi in the
testing process. Not a single one...



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Alan Campin
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 1:29 PM
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Subject: Re: IBM I as a web server?

"Yet we write modern code". Maybe you are but my experience is that 99% of
the people who work on this machine are still writing code for 1985. Still
using subroutines, file I/O, program calls and internal print files. No
procedures, no modules, no service program, no SQL which is, of course, why
the machine is dying.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 1:22 PM Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Exactly. That's my point. We RPG programmers are painted as living in
a GoTo world. Yet we write modern code for the most robust business
computer on the planet.


On 11/26/2018 3:04 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 1:58 PM Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

It concerns me that we might be wrapping ourselves in flags that are

15

years old. In the computer world, that's a whole bunch.

Concerned about 15 year old technology? That sounds rather strange,

coming

from an RPG programmer.

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