Re: IBM i 7.6 Development tools -- RPG400-L

Am 23.04.2025 um 17:41 schrieb Jack Woehr via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

We can console ourselves that our solution is the most efficient, the most power efficient, the most workable, the most productive from a development point of view, compared to the breathtaking inefficiency of many cloud-only solutions!

Yes - absolutely - but I don't think, that it will save the platform in the long run.

Why did so many ISVs and customers buy an AS/400 in the first place? Because it was the "one-size-fits-all" solution, that had everything in one package. And you could develop and extend business applications at an enormous speed.

And that's what all other solutions lack right now. I tightly integrated application(!) platform. We have enough databases with web service extension out there - also more than enough "application servers" - and sure more than enough "islands" in the vast enterprise IT oceans.

What's really needed is a platform, that kicks a... when it comes to developing and running business applications - where you turn the key, and everything is running and waiting to deploy your first application.

And I don't think that this is pure nostalgia - it's what so many application developers want. It could fill that niche between No-Code / Low-Code and those oversized development pipelines. And filling a niche was always the purpose of the platform.

Regards
Daniel

Am 23.04.2025 um 17:41 schrieb Jack Woehr via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Daniel --

It still is "an integrated solution" if you think about all of what it takes stand up a truly, fully featured database on a reliable hardware platform where all the tools are there at one's disposal for maintenance, enhancement, security, and integration into the enterprise, right up through REST APIs and enterprise event stream solutions such as Kafka. All there on IBM i!

Yes, it triggers one's nostagia for simpler times to see the centralized solution become just one island in a vast sea of the modern enterprise, but our commitment, after all, is to the enterprise, and sometimes our technical enthusiasms have to take second seat. We can console ourselves that our solution is the most efficient, the most power efficient, the most workable, the most productive from a development point of view, compared to the breathtaking inefficiency of many cloud-only solutions!

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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.

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