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Am 23.04.2025 um 16:15 schrieb Jack Woehr via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Then the IBM i just becomes one more database in the enterprise that delivers up its data via APIs.
That would be very sad indeed - because if IBM i becomes "just another database" it will be not the "integrated solution" that it was, since the AS/400 was introduced.
Right now outside of the traditional ILE-RPG development, IBM i lacks that "unique selling point" that it used to have for so long.
And IMHO IBM has dropped that ball long ago. First they tried Visual Age - then everything had to be Java - then Websphere - then EGL (or should I say WTF?) ... sometimes I thought IBM marketing was on a bad trip, and simply threw buzzwords into the market so see if anything keeps hanging.
Today - if you follow the "unofficial rulebook" (aka mainstream), you mostly give away the unique features of the platform. And that will slowly but steadily lead the platform out of the company.
Maybe it's time to do something - I think that a group of developers could take all those loose ends, and tie them together to an open source solution that can re-integrate it all again.
Just my 0,02€ on that topic.
Regards,
Daniel
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