Re: How many of you will stay at V7R5 lower due to SDA removal ?

Hello Richard,

Am 24.07.2025 um 16:33 schrieb Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I’m not worried about me accessing SDA. I have my ways :-)

Good to know!

This is more about deprecating things from the OS that don’t really need to go away for any particular reason.

In an earlier thread, someone (Jon Paris?) pointed out that things as SDA might stem from very early S/38 based code. Not RPG, not C. Compilers which have been deprecated many OS releases ago and where keeping the runtime components integrated and working becomes a serious challenge. I can follow this argumentation.

Completely unrelated is that I am extremely sure IBM is just big enough to have all those legacy utilities rewritten in one of the currently available HLLs on IBM i. But then, this binds resources, costs money and IBM for decades is trying hard but inconsistently to kill the green screen. At least for end users. This inconsistency and large failure in "how to move to web easily" has been pointed out in other discussions, also. Mainly by Daniel Gross.

So, SDA is no more, and won't come back unless IBM becomes painfully aware (maybe due to many people expressing their disagreement on COMMON) that they are forced to recreate SDA because a majority of IBM i users require it to be available. I do not believe that the majority cares.

Might as well just throw out all 5250 development then :-)

I'm actually waiting for that to eventually happen. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. Although I'm in the comfy situation that I'm not a business and hence don't need to keep up with the perceived increasing speed of planned obsolescence IBM pushes through.

:wq! PoC