Re: Costco still on IBM i?

Hello Marco,

Am 25.05.2025 um 20:06 schrieb Marco Facchinetti <marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>:

Patrik don't miss my message:

Being you a programmer or an ISV soon or later will arrive the fresh graduated stating "what's this green crap?". The fate of programmers and ISVs in front of these people is the same. We are out.

Now, here comes the question I have no answer for: The same fresh graduating — having an interest in Linux — perceives that "green crap" (aka command line) as superior to cumbersome clickey-clickey-stuff. Why? Depending on the task at hand, though.

And talking about companies that "keep the lights on", it's your personal choice if you stay there.

The older one gets, the less choice one has but gritting their teeth and pray the remaining couple of years until retirement will pass quickly. Older people aren't really sought after in the job market.

The reason I spend time respondig is because I fear that soon or later IBM change it's mind about IWS maybe only because of lack of feedback.

Aha, now we're talking. :-) Again, that's what COMMON et al is for.

IBM did it with AFP toolbox and since my customers produce an average of 500.000 bills per year and thoose bills were done using the Afp toolbox i had to rewrite it. Intersting but not needed.

In IT, you will always be at the mercy of some vendor, unless you have the resources to do everything yourself. This is one of the unsolvable conundrums in our business.

Advocating a product (IWS) by stating to give up on 5250 triggers those who have their own reasons for staying on 5250. Daniel has provided constant reasoning why this might be a better option than burning money for no perceivable value. As always, it depends.

:wq! PoC