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

" 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."

On day 1 of the AS400 being available there were 1000's of applications
readily available to run on it. The AS stood for Application System. IBM
with S34 and S38 had invested heavily in assisting ISV's develop
applications. This made it so simple for a customer to buy this integrated
solution because the solution was there. And note this was pre internet so
no web,

If you compare IBM's assistance today to ISV's to then ... well there does
not seem to be much now.

IBM's partners in development was an enormously beneficial program that I
believe has totally disappeared.

Just my $0.01c in Aussie dollar :-)

Cheers
Don

Don Brown

Senior Consultant

[1]OneTeam IT Pty Ltd
P: 1300 088 400

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> 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
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> 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
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>> 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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