Re: Problem with iToolkit in Node on Windows

I don't know that IBM has had bad issues with Java. In fact I believe it's probably generated billions $$$ of revenue for them.

It's more that many in the IBMi community were and still are afraid to work with it.

JT400 is a great way to access IBMi. Now that I know of the JT400 Node interface I plan to possibly use it since it's rock solid technology.

Regards,

Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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message: 2
date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:47:37 -0600
from: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Problem with iToolkit in Node on Windows

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 6:25 AM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Dear IBM,

Java developers need a package that lets them remotely connect to the
IBM i (jt400.jar), but Node developers don't?

I can't speak for IBM. After their experience with with Java, maybe they concluded that it didn't pay to help people migrate workloads to Windows. I simply offer that as a possibility. I really don't know what IBM may be thinking.

How would you feel about running Node.js in PASE or on IBM's Bluemix cloud service?