Re: Reasons for using RPGIV

Well....see if any of the info here help you get a new POWER7 box you
can transition to SAP...

http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/apilite?infotype=SA&infosubt=WH&lastdays=1825&hitlimit=200&ctvwcode=US&pubno=POL*USEN&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN_CR&additional=summary&contents=keeponlit

"Value Proposition for IBM POWER7 Based Systems x86 Server
Consolidation in SAP Enterprise Environments"

Here's something else:
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1874315
"I have to agree with Volker. This is no reason to change. You need to
look into the Power7 Solution Edition. The prices are much less than
ever before - your Hw partner should know this.
www.ibm.com/systems/i/editions/ Often we are seeing customers drop a
whole model to fewer cores when moving from Power5/6 to Power7- 550 to
720, 570 to 740 and still ending up with the same or more capacity on
a faster core. The software tier drops as well in these cases.

On another platform, you can look forward to buying and managing more
footprints for sure, with multiple licenses from different vendors.
With partitions and subsystems, no other platform can run SAP in as
few footprints as can be done on Power i.

And we are seeing customers migrate TO i FROM windows in cases as
well, because as they go to netweaver solutions with multiple SAP
components they soon end up with dozens of boxes and it becomes
unmanageable....they consolidate on i."

Here's a biggie:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/support/erp/index.html

HTH,

Charles




On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:20 PM, sjl <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It won't matter soon**.

The company was just acquired by another multinational company and an
announcement was made this morning that all systems will be converted to
SAP.

** Using the word "soon" is perhaps a bit optimistic; I figure it will take
5 years and 300 million dollars worth of effort to make the transition from
JDE (both World and OneWorld) to SAP.

- sjl


Bob wrote:
 Maybe the new programmer can handle maintenance on all the old code no one
 wants to touch. They can stay in RPG/400 and be happy and the rest can
 advance.

 I do find it amazing that the new person wants to prevent programming in
 RPGIV, especially when it is already happening. I understand they may not
 be comfortable with RPGIV, and maybe JDE is still completely RPG/400, I
 don't know, I've never had to work with it. But it can't help the new guys
 job security to say "No we need to do it all the old way."



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