Re: Housekeeping

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forgive me for butting in here, because I have absolutely no experience
with VIOS or blades or PureFlex or whatever, but a thought keeps creeping
into my head.

We're going backwards.

The IBM i is supposed to be simple to manage.  This doesn't sound like it's
making things simpler.  Are we going to get to a point where the "Laughing
Boardroom" ads don't apply anymore?

Just my .02.




On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I won't say that the FSM of PureFlex does everything, but I believe it
> IS a graphical interface to managing those boxes - wouldn't it be nice
> to get that for other places?
>
> Has anyone used it? Is it much more GUI than, say, HMC?
>
> On 5/21/2013 6:08 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > VIOS is probably linux based.  And many of those Linux propeller heads
> > aren't as open to GUI as IBM i users are.  At least that's what IBM told
> > me when I asked for an enhancement to System i Navigator for Windows
> > support for semaphores and threads.  They rejected the request because
> > true aficionados of semaphores and threads eschew GUI.
> >
> >
> > Rob Berendt
>
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