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To me it is this one thing: When others hear you say "IBM i" or "Power--
Systems" they expect you to be up to date with the current technology
of the machine. To be able to leverage it for success now and forward.
When you are up to date, you likely understand those 'minor things'
that are different like semi-annual technology refreshes to continue
to bring new function. Like SQL to do system administration tasks like
looking for files on disk or managing PTFs. Simple things like using
network based image catalogs to update multiple partitions with a
single set of ptfs or even doing upgrades from that media. They expect
you will have set up redundant connections to your network for
reliability and multiple paths to your storage for performance and
reliability. That storage might even be SAN based giving you many new
capabilities. You utilize the vast capabilities of SQL in your
applications which are coded in RPG FREE using RDi.
ALL of these are 'Green Screen' things you refer to as being 'the same'
as AS/400. But they are not because not one single thing on that list
can be done on an AS/400. Don't even try.
But when you say "AS/400" you sound like you're living under a rock.
You probably have a single Ethernet line, you may still be hoarding a
twinax console in your garage wishing it was your console. You fight
to run Client Access on Windows 10 because you somehow think it's
better than Access Client Solutions and it's web partner Navigator for
i. You still feed a single tape into a standalone tape drive every
night or just leave it in there and use it every day. You code in PDM,
you use RPG/400, file level access and run Query/400. Essentially all
the capabilities, IBM has added since the last century are ignored.
In other words to you it IS an AS/400!
And when that's your attitude I don't want to hire you or let you
touch my systems.
And MY reaction is why do YOU pwork SO HARD to keep a name from the past?!
Let it go. LET. IT. Go!!!
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.
On 10/23/2019 12:11 PM, Patrik Schindler wrote:
Hello,midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Am 23.10.2019 um 15:07 schrieb Jim Oberholtzer <
current names for the technology. AS/400 and iSeries have not been
One last point. At least honor all of us on the list by using the
built for some time. IBM i is the name of the OS environment and it
runs on POWER.
this: https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/The_Naming_of_the_System
I don't understand why people react so huffy about that. My $.02 on
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