Re: Costco still on IBM i? -- MIDRANGE-L

Roger,

One of the more profound (and accurate) posts I have ever read in my almost
51 years of being employed.

On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have always had the opinion that the IBM I programs/interfaces were done
by people with more real-world experience - having worked in whatever
industry or similar. That gives you more insight into what is needed to
perform the function(s).

Again, just my opinion but I think most of the web stuff is designed by
people who never worked a retail counter, dealt with inventory, etc.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

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IMHO the takeaway here is that the greenscreen interface, within its
now-too-obvious limits, hewed tightly to certain usability factors mandated
from top down.
IBM did studies in the early 1970's on the decline in operator
productivity measured against response time, etc.
The problem of crappy web interfaces that supplant tight greenscreen code
is not an intrinsic validation of greenscreen vs. web interface.
The problem is that some web programmers are more interested in web
programming, web toolkits, and visual features unrelated to enterprise
productivity than in delivering a comfortable workspace in a browser to
people who work intensively in one application day after day.

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I think this is an excellent example of how durable and "in the present"
the IBM i is. A "green screen" is not necessarily equivalent to "stuck
in the past". I use SSH/puTTy "black screen" aka "ugly terminal" every
day on the most bleeding edge platforms out there. Choose the best tool
for the best job....

Pete Helgren

Jack Woehr
Independent Consulting Programmer

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