Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

["Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

If you used the FAMILY name (System i), you would not have to change the 
name for some time to come!

Trevor

P.S. The System i includes your iSeries, the i5, the AS/400 and the soon to 
be i6...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Pluta"
Subject: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence


> The iSeries supports pretty much every character set available.  Certainly
> as many as your standard Windows/*nix box.
>
> The QSYS library system is the only file system that has the 10 character
> limit, and that's frankly all a business system needs.  Long 
> directory/path
> structures are needed for text-file-based operating systems that are
> fconfigured with thousands of little files, as opposed to an OS with an
> integrated database.
>
> But in any case, the iSeries supports long file names just fine in the 
> IFS.
>
> The fact that the iSeries supports all those technologies IN ADDITION TO 
> all
> the technologies offered by other operating systems is a benefit, not a
> disadvantage.
>
> Joe
>
> P.S. I should start a cult: The Church of the Perpetual Myth of iSeries
> Obsolescence.  I'd have to rename it every time IBM renamed the box, but
> that might actually be helpful from a tax (evasion) standpoint.