Re: 5250 to Web Interface / Application Modernization

Our entire user community calls the machine the AS/400 - and what they usually mean is the interface.They've done this for over 20 years on the platform.

We're moving toward a graphical, browser-based interface - and we talk about saying things like, it's not the AS/400 anymore, now you're using an IBM i!  Hooray!! And even fining anyone who uses the old name - you know, a quarter in a jar! That probably won't happen, but it'd be fun!

So it's not exactly a specious argument, perception IS reality, I hear of a newish manager saying he'll never work on an AS/400 - he is also not comfortable with any computer, so it's probably not really aimed at our favorite platform - still.....

Cheers
Vern

On 4/5/2019 7:52 PM, Jay Vaughn wrote:

I here that debate all over the place. But nothing beats how it’s debated in this forum.
Much respect to you guys though. The best of the best in here.

Jay

On Apr 5, 2019, at 9:15 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

LOL Jay - you should've been here about 5 years ago! We haven't had a good "name" diatribe for forever!

On 4/5/2019 7:13 PM, Jay Vaughn wrote:
The debates you guys get into. Smh

Comical yet enteraining.

Jay

On Apr 5, 2019, at 6:16 PM, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"several"?! It's been IBM i for 11 years. Tied with "AS/400" for the longest-lived name. (By contrast, it was "iSeries" for 6 years, and "System i" for 2.)

On 4/5/19 5:36 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
But Booth - iSeries is not the current name - it is IBM i - and it has been that for several years now.

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