RE: "IBM i Modernization" & PASE

[Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No offense meant.  It just caught my attention.  If you hadn't mentioned PASE, I wouldn't have batted an eye.



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From: Nathan Andelin [mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxx] 
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Subject: Re: "IBM i Modernization" & PASE

Regarding "It seems like you're arbitrarily excluding PASE because it's not native enough"; That's a controversial assumption. I should admit to making a couple statements about PASE in the first article in the series:

"This piece offers opinions about options for moving from green-screens to browser user interfaces. It focuses on IBM i-centric alternatives as opposed to the migration of applications (or the UI portion of
applications) to other platforms."

"My definition of other platforms includes language and runtime environments which run in PASE, because PASE is really a subset of AIX.
Though interesting as they may be, the scope of this blog is limited to IBM i-centric options (ILE languages)."

I view IBM i and PASE as essentially separate and distinct operating systems (or environments). They both run on Power. They're packed together.
But the runtime interfaces and characteristics are about the same as running two separate partitions on a single hypervisor.

At any rate, I've chosen to write about modernizing IBM i, using the integrated language environment as opposed to using language environments which run in PASE.