Re: system p announcement

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

True, everything has a limitation (price) associated with it.  Regarding 
the 10 character limitation, at least as displayed by system utilities 
(the i5 itself has no such limitation), I've never quite grasped that as 
a problem.  Maybe it's because I worked on 3/34/36 systems where the 
limitation was eight, and I started on PC's with DOS 2.0.

Also, one of the "advantages" to Cobol (or so I was told) was its long 
field names.  Hell, Cobol programmers are just as lazy as the rest of 
us.  Instead of "Total-Sales-Division", they usually wrote TSLSDV.  I 
know that has nothing to do with object names and RPG IV blew that 
limitation away (at least as regards program-defined fields), but it is 
illustrative. 

Long object names are nice when viewing a list of objects, such as 
spreadsheets or even data files.  But I get real cranky if typing those 
object names when keying a program causes me to miss my morning coffee.  
Just don't see it as a disadvantage; been dealing with it for way too 
many years.


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Steve Richter wrote:
> On 11/7/07, Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Don't forget to build in the cost of a security package and anything
> > else that costs extra in AIX, not just the DBMS.
> >     
>
> ok, but then there are the shortfalls. max 10 char object names,
> ebcdic char set. AIX and Linux have x-windows which I guess is better
> than 5250. There are likely more software vendors and applications
> available for AIX or Linux than i5/OS.
>
> Put it this way: If i5/OS is priced the same as AIX and there are no
> hardware restrictions, will AIX users switch to i5/OS?
>