Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

[Ron-Zimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Don't equate modernization to a GUI interface!  Just because it has a GUI 
interface DOES NOT make it modern.

I realize that this is the perception that most non-IT folks have, but 
that is just wrong.  A green screen ap can be just as modern as a GUI ap.

Thank you,
Ronald L. Zimmerman
I.T. Applications Manager
Swiss Valley Farms, Co.      http://www.swissvalley.com
"The Good for You Company"
Email: Ron-Zimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/28/2006 02:35:01 PM:

> On 4/28/06, Ingvaldson, Scott <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > No one complains about Linux or Unix admins who do their heavy lifting
> > using character based interfaces.
> 
> It is not about the tools / interfaces we use to manage the systems. 
> It is about the applications used by the user community.  The problem
> is that the applications are still green screen, in many cases because
> the RPG developers refuse to move toward graphical interfaces.
> 
> This makes perfect sense to me.  Why would management trust the
> judgment about modernization to people who refuse to modernize the
> very core of their working environment?
> 
> > The i5/Series is really the ultimate consolidation platform; almost
> > nothing is incompatible with it, almost anything will run on it in 
some
> > shape or form.  What other box can say that?
> 
> Certainly, but those capabilities are totally unused in the VAST
> majority of shops, so all the executives see is the green screen.  We
> need to demonstrate what the system can do with "edge" projects, so
> that the real capabilities are known.
> 
> For instance, my company uses an old version of BPCS, which is green
> screen.  But we have a few well placed web (CGI) programs, so that the
> execs know that the system can support it.  It has been made clear to
> the decision makers that while the application we choose to use is old
> and limited, the underlying technology isn't.
> 
> Consequently, when I proposed an iSeries upgrade last fall I did not
> get opposition related to the "oldness" of the system.  And as we
> consider new things, I can propose putting them on the iSeries without
> eyes rolling.
> 
> --
> Tom Jedrzejewicz
> tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx