Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

["Mike Eovino" <meovino@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

If the 10 character limit bothers you so much, create your tables with
SQL.  You can give them nice long SQL names as well as nice short
system names.  Best of both worlds (yet again).  I'm not sure if the
same holds true for Schemas.

That's right, folks, I said TABLES and SCHEMAS.  If our system appears
to be old, at least part of that perception is due to the fact that we
use old terminology to describe it.  I have kids fresh out of college
working for me (green-hairs -- to steal Joe's line), writing Java apps
running in WAS.  If I use their lingo, I have no problems.  And they
have no problems using the system.

And although I teach them iSeries Navigator, most of them use the
command line interface because it's faster.  Just like it was when
they used Unix in school.  But for those who like GUI, they have GUI. 
Some of them never launch an emulator session.  What do I care, as
long as they get their work done.

Mike E.