To me it is this one thing: When others hear you say "IBM i" or "Power
Systems" they expect you to be up to date with the current technology of
the machine. To be able to leverage it for success now and forward.
When you are up to date, you likely understand those 'minor things' that
are different like semi-annual technology refreshes to continue to bring
new function. Like SQL to do system administration tasks like looking
for files on disk or managing PTFs. Simple things like using network
based image catalogs to update multiple partitions with a single set of
ptfs or even doing upgrades from that media. They expect you will have
set up redundant connections to your network for reliability and
multiple paths to your storage for performance and reliability. That
storage might even be SAN based giving you many new capabilities. You
utilize the vast capabilities of SQL in your applications which are
coded in RPG FREE using RDi.
ALL of these are 'Green Screen' things you refer to as being 'the same'
as AS/400. But they are not because not one single thing on that list
can be done on an AS/400. Don't even try.
But when you say "AS/400" you sound like you're living under a rock. You
probably have a single Ethernet line, you may still be hoarding a twinax
console in your garage wishing it was your console. You fight to run
Client Access on Windows 10 because you somehow think it's better than
Access Client Solutions and it's web partner Navigator for i. You still
feed a single tape into a standalone tape drive every night or just
leave it in there and use it every day. You code in PDM, you use
RPG/400, file level access and run Query/400. Essentially all the
capabilities, IBM has added since the last century are ignored.
In other words to you it IS an AS/400!
And when that's your attitude I don't want to hire you or let you touch
my systems.
And MY reaction is why do YOU pwork SO HARD to keep a name from the past?!
Let it go. LET. IT. Go!!!
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.Frankeni.com
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On 10/23/2019 12:11 PM, Patrik Schindler wrote:
Hello,
Am 23.10.2019 um 15:07 schrieb Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
One last point. At least honor all of us on the list by using the current names for the technology. AS/400 and iSeries have not been built for some time. IBM i is the name of the OS environment and it runs on POWER.
I don't understand why people react so huffy about that. My $.02 on this: https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/The_Naming_of_the_System
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