Re: With the dropping of a few features from IBM i are there vendor software concerns?

The fact that there are open source alternatives for much of and the lack of use makes most of that a non-event. But, be watching announcements since we might be in for quite a change coming up too. Too soon to tell yet.

It’s about that time for IBM to make some strong architectural changes based on history. Think CISC to RISC. Do I know, nope just speculation, but the timing feels right.


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Sep 23, 2024, at 10:59 AM, VERNON HAMBERG Owner via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi


Yes, SDA is there, also RLU (have most of us learned to hate that?). We now have components of RDi that take care of those quite nicely.


Again, these items will not disappear from your system. That page clearly says that 7.5 is the last release that will deliver these. I see this to say, we can't order any of these in future releases.


I also expect that vendors have been given notice of this early enough


Cheers
Vern


On Mon, 23 Sep, 2024 at 10:38 AM, James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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On 9/23/24 8:12 AM, MidrangeL wrote:
No, however anyone used to reading IBM tea leaves has to be wondering
about a couple of the items in this list. Note that PDM with SEU is
NOT on the list. Just all the other virtually unused portions of that
software.

Hmm. SDA is on the list. I occasionally use it. But it's hardly
something I would expect to need on a customer box, and I can't remember
the last time I used it on anything other than our own development boxes.

I also noticed that DFU is on the list, but there are a number of
commercial applications (including our oldest) and at least one open
source application, that do what it does, and a lot better, and of
course, there's always STRSQL.

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