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Any software house knows that developing new software for "IBM i only" is
worse than starting a hairdresser's salon for red-haired people only - just
look at the size of the community and the number on the financial bottom
line for most proprietary IBM i ISV's and the consolidation of many BP's.



IBM has provided a gateway to mainstream development on IBM I – you have to
adopt and invest in it, otherwise the platform will eventual die – that is
the inevitable truth.


On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I wonder the reason for the assertion that shops are "moving away" from
ILE
languages, rather than integrating with ILE languages on IBM i? Sure,
some
shops may be using scripting languages to generate formatted responses
to
requests from browsers and web-service clients, but still integrating
with
IBM i stored procedures, triggers, and user defined functions? And using
ILE languages for batch and background processes? A separation of
responsibilities? A shift in application architecture that includes both?

Is there really a case to be made for Node doing it all?


If there were, there wouldn't be so many things in the toolkit that let you
interact with data areas, queues, etc. And you could run it on any
platform you wanted and simply migrate off the IBM i. Maybe that's the end
goal? Who knows. But I wouldn't want to see a node application that does
AR, Inventory, etc... You'd go blind.

It has its uses, but while we RPGers are told "you use RPG as a hammer, and
see everything as a nail" I see the similaries on the other side of things.
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