Re: IBM i 7.6 Development tools

Hello Gavin,

Am 23.04.2025 um 21:58 schrieb Gavin Inman <midrangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

The integrated solution went away when the AS/400 name was retired. That was also when AIX and AS/400 merged into one unhappy family on Power.

Did't IBM advertise IBM i as "i for integrated"?

The AIX guys in TX slowly took over everything in Rochester. Rochester tried, but eventually lost the battles. To the AIX team, it is, just another Database.

An interesting allegation. I wonder if you could provide some proof?

However, the best selling point for IBM i is the robustness of the OS.

Not any longer.

E. g. Linux is meanwhile en par, including most of the basic applications (ssh server, Apache, PHP, Postfix, Dovecot, Samba, …) which run on a typical server platform. I have not experienced kernel panics in decades, and said basic applications are also running flawless.

It never goes down

You need scheduled dowtimes on all platforms for installing updated software to fix security issues.

For quite some years, Wintel-PC servers are also proved to be very reliable.

and is the most secure platform out there.

A tough allegation.

IBM faced regular challenges from programmers finding security issues in the pastime. And tried to use their lawyers to shove them under the carpet instead of fixing them. See what happened to Joseph Park and Leif Svalgaard. Not very trust building, if you ask me. Why should they act differently nowadays? Money and reputation, because reputation contributes to market power. How was that? Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM?

https://ibmi.silentsignal.eu/ — they rap IBM's knuckles regularly.

IBM i appears to be as secure as you allege, because it fills a tiny niche and hence isn't an interesting target for malevolent hackers.

That's why many banks still use Iseries on the backend.

I doubt that. The main reason for them to still use IBM i is pretty surely compatibility to existing applications. As in almost every other "IBM i shop", too.

:wq! PoC