Re: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?

Some shops, the ones that stay with the old code, do so for job security
reasons. I have not seen this aspect of the problem discussed or a solution.

Managers in their mid 50-s - early 60's only want to have a job, so it is not
in their interests to change. Since they are swamped with work, maintaining old
code, running reports for senior managment who are happy, what is their
incentive to throw all that away and take a chance on a fancy ERP with a data
warehouse, which will render most of what they do unnecessary, written in ILE
that they do not understand?

There are probably thousands of shops like that. The younger PA's have to be
patient there.
Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alan Campin wrote:

Now just so I am clear, I think this is pure insanity dumping the AS/400
for something like Oracle which has the worst customer support in the
world but this stuff is being sold to CEO and CFO.

That reminded me of a System/34 job I got (many, many moons ago). The
president went to an IBM sales thing; came back with his copy of the
order; threw it on the treasurer's desk and told him to implement it.
Took them two years (and two other programmers) to find me.


On the downside, eight years later the gig ended when they decided to
move to a Unix-type system. My boss (the treasurer) and I were both
sent packing.



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