Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Steve:

You got much of what you have been asking for with the recent new 
hardware announcements and pricing. (POWER = i + p)

But your posts on this list over the past few months indicate a profound 
lack of understanding of just what Single Level Storage and MI 
architecture is all about.

You keep harping on the 16MB segment size as if it is a huge problem. It 
is not. If you truly need to address more than 16MB of contiguous 
storage, you can use teraspace (since V4R4).

MI pointers DO remain valid between IPLs. Only temporary pointers (such 
as space pointers into heap space, teraspace pointers, etc.) are not 
valid across an IPL.

ILE has been improved over the years, but many of the improvements were 
"under the covers" and might not have been obvious to you. In V6R1, 
i5/OS can now "load on demand" any *SRVPGMs used by an application, 
rather than loading them all at once. This can reduce the overhead to 
start up large ILE applications, because *SRVPGMs are not resolved and 
activated until they are actually used by the application.

Once again, you are harping on 10 character object names. It has been 
suggested (by others more knowledgeable than me) that eventually, the 
operating system will be enhanced to support longer object names in the 
QSYS.LIB file system, probably at the same time that this file system is 
enhanced to allow Unicode names or other CCSIDs.  This is not really 
that big of a deal to most people, but you continue to rant and rave 
about it.

Give us a break!

Sincerely,

Mark S. Waterbury

> Steve Richter wrote:
> the spirit of the article and comments reads as an embrace of the operating
> system of the 1990s. The hardware people at IBM are doing world class work.
> The software team is what is holding us back now. SLS is aged with its 16meg
> segment limit and the inablility of pointers to stay valid between IPLs. ILE
> has not been improved in 10 yrs. 10 char limit on object names is bad, Fix
> it, ok.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Mike Cunningham <mcunning@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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> > http://blogs.computerworld.com/frankly_speaking_not_dead_yet
> > --
> >