Re: OS400 vs AIX

I heard Steve Will say recently: "It has been IBM i longer than any
other name, and it will stay IBM i."

Can we PLEASE retire the 'whatever it's named today' and 'renamed every
few years' drivel? ??

Every time I see it, it makes me wonder if the author has 35 years of
experience on IBM i or 1 year of AS/400 experience 35 times.

On 5/19/2023 8:42 AM, Dsternb wrote:

<Roy Luce>
Not a switch; more of an extension.

A multi-plant client, running the application, supports all their US
plants and distribution locations off a single iSeries. Their Canadian
operations would like to use my application but they run AIX, the
VARNET application, and the Progress DB.
</Roy Luce>

... OS/400 (and all compatible operating systems, renamed every few

years)

are running on small kernel (called machine interface) and this is

running

on the same hardware, AIX is running on. One machine could have AIX
partitions and AS/400 (or how it might be named today) partitions
running at
the same time - but: It's all IBM and you would have to buy an OS/400
license for this and IBM decides wether it would sell for your AIX
hardware.
Your RPG Software could run on such a partition with no changes, as it
would
run on every box selled as AS/400 (or how it might be named today).
Porting your RPG application to AIX would be near to impossible, you

would

have to rewrite all in another language.
One correction to ArdGate: using ArdGate you could access all JDBC

capable

databases with all SQL interfaces of AS/400 (or how it might be named
today) - native RPG/COBOL I/O is not supported.

D*B

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