Re: Costco still on IBM i?

Am 25.05.2025 um 17:11 schrieb Marco Facchinetti <marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>:

"we developed an own solution for the communication between the client and
the RPG program - for better or worse."

Why reinventing hot water? Ok probably not your decision but in this way
"you" damage yourself twice:
- Send to IBM the wrong signal (a lack of IWS adoption is a bad signal)
- Expose your business to a technological debt instead of delegating IBM to
solve it (now your company pays a maintenace fee to IBM and another vendor)

No - there is no other vendor - as I wrote - my company developed that solution. And it's much older than IWS, as we had Windows GUI apps hat used the same technology stack - long before "Web-UIs" were en-vogue.

So when the GUI guys switched from "Windows Forms" to web UI we simply re-used the same technology - so the older windows GUI apps and the new web apps worked parallel for some time.

Ah - we do use IWS also - for other tasks. And there was no damage done. Both solutions have their pros and cons.

And please Daniel don't get me wrong, mine is not a position against 5250,
...
and I'm afraid that if we don't all stop clinging to the old paradigm that
the 5250 brings with it, sooner or later we'll all find ourselves stranded.

If that would be the case, we wouldn't have the system since 2005. IBM will produce and sell Power Servers, as long as there are people who buy them. And they will service and support IBM i also as long as there are companies that pay for it.

I see a much greater danger - if you degrade the "i" to a simple database backend server - without an own identity - it gets more and more replaceable.

But as long, as you (as an customer IT) can solve business problems faster and add more value to the core business, nobody will question you - whether its 5250 or web UI.

I completely understand your position as an ISV - that's OK - but that's your personal PoV.

Regards,
Daniel