RE: IBM i 7.6 Development tools

Marco, I am sorry, but I am confused by your reply.

In the first sentence you say, "...letting go of the customer who wants to have a solution based only on old paradigm.... (Rpg + 5250)".

In the second sentence you say, "....market asks that the interface can be chosen by the customer.....".

So, what does that mean when the customer chooses to have Rpg + 5250? Are they in or out? If they are out, then somebody needs to contact the large number of customers that have chosen, and continue to choose, Rpg + 5250 and let them know then need to go away. Not thinking that's really what IBM wants to do.

Steve


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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Marco Facchinetti
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 12:04
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Subject: Re: IBM i 7.6 Development tools

Hi Daniel

I'm sorry but IBM made the right decision in letting go of the customer who wants to have a solution based only on the old paradigm of a programmer an application (Rpg + 5250).
Today, and in truth for many years, the market asks that the interface can be chosen by the customer based on needs and not on IBM's prepackaged ideas (Visual Age and EGL).
Whoever does not accept this paradigm is out of the market and IBM is right not to indulge them.

Please take a deep look at IWS. It's free and works great.

Best regards
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Il giorno mer 23 apr 2025 alle ore 17:08 Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx> ha
scritto:

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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