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

Hello Pat,

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

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

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

--Well, IBM has its reasons, like Patrick says...

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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.

How many companies in the AS/400-IBM i sector rewrite their code base to keep up with improvements in the current programming languages? Granted, smaller companies do have fewer resources but smaller shops can still do something. Trick is to convince the deciders though.

My client is transitioning from a decades-old code base to a new non-IBM i platform after attempting modernization to the current code. But in my humble opinion (and not just mine) they could have approached the change with a better strategy, without belaboring details.

....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.

IBM didn't invent planned obsolescence and kept supporting "old tech" that they had good replacements for, like 5250. They figured probably correctly that they would lose a good part of their client base if they moved too fast. Surely their software engineers and their accountants do a lot of meetings discussing things like what to enhance, what to sunset, and so on.

And nobody can deny they haven't given enough forewarning about their plans. They're a business. Kudos to them for jumping into open source
languages with both feet. But it's a business and they try to maximize profits like any (especially being "public"(.

--aec