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

Yep, OAuth and email is the current next big thing.

I'm approaching the new world email stuff by bypassing much of the built in IBMi system stuff and using open source like PHP and Python with command wrappers.

In my real world it's often much easier to bypass RPG for web service callers, email providers and other integrations. Just use CL to integrate them to RPG and CL as needed.

You don't really to use any of the system SSL store stuff either when you use the open-source stack. Much easier to configure. And you can use utilities like curl which are drop-dead simple to integrate to CL and RPG now.

Although you need to understand and install the open-source packages which is quite well documented these days and easy to do.

If anyone here is interested in using open-source stack based CL commands for email and other integrations, reach out and I can educate you on MobiGoGo Connect.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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message: 1
date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:59:51 -0500
from: Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: How many of you will stay at V7R5 lower due to SDA
removal ?

Ask me how many customers have asked me to incorporate a web interface, open source, "new stuff", etc. into my offerings that are used mainly in background batch processes.

Go ahead. I'll give you two guesses and the first doesn't count.

Now ask me how many customers making the move to OAuth 2.0 for Office 365 email have needed assistance setting it up just because there are a couple web pages involved, setting up the *SYSTEM SSL store on the IBM i, adding DNS servers so they can resolve endpoints for O365, updating the authorities to the keyring files... I could go on.

These lists are our own little world. The real world is very different.


On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 10:15?AM Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Yep. Keep it old !!

Your thousands of customers will thank you for not modernizing :)

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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