RE: Alternate to iSeries

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

There are other RPG platforms...I've written on most of them, but I
don't know of one that supports RPG/IV and especially not ILE. You
might try a PC platform, like ASNA or something. Maybe VisualAge RPG on
an Intel server with DB2?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Alternate to iSeries
> From: "Chris Bipes" <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, December 16, 2004 2:49 pm
> To: "'midrange-l'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The owner of CrossCheck has asked me to find an alternate platform to run
> our authorization system on.  It is an in-house grown RPGLE application.
> Does IBM offer an RPGLE compiler for their pSeries systems?  We will still
> have our current iSeries based system but also offer a second system running
> with a different OS.  The owner feels that if terrorist were to ever hack
> iSeries and bring then down world wide, we would still have our secondary
> system running.  He does not like any single point of failure, which is why
> we have two locations across the US.  What other systems can I run DB2 and
> RPGLE on?
> 
> Ok quit laughing 8-) he is serious.
> 
> Christopher K. Bipes 
> Manager of Systems Administration
> CrossCheck, Inc.
> 
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