RE: Required products for a new i user?

["McKown, John" <John.Mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:56 AM
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> Subject: Required products for a new i user?
>
> This is just a opinion question. But what products (extra 
> cost) do ya'll
> think are "de rigeur" for a new i shop? So far, just from overhearing,
> it looks like we will be getting Robot/Scheduler and 
> Robot/Tape. I read
> here about the System i Navigator and am reading up on it. I 
> really like
> the "for Wireless" option, but that is "extra cost". Now, I am a bit
> worried (probably unnecessarily) that the proposal might not include
> some extra cost products in order to look more attractive.
>  
> On the compiler question: is each compiler licensed separately, or are
> the all a single package? I would hope the latter.
>  

OOPs, on the compiler, I meant to say "former", not "latter". I.e. I
hope they are separately licensed. We are 95%+ COBOL. Most of the rest
is CA-Easytrieve. I think CA has a i version of that, but I don't know
if that is in the proposal. I was told the RPG could likely replace
Easytrieve, but everytime I look at RPG, my stomach starts to burble.

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