Re: traditional AS/400 code base CMS transition

[Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rob not sure I've heard of PTC before - on the list - thx!

jay

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 10:11 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We changed from Softlanding / Turnover years ago to PTC (david at
> midrange.com's day job).  We did it at the time solely because Turnover
> was dragging their feet on supporting a new version of IBM i.  I have ZERO
> tolerance for that BS.
>
> Recently I looked at a quote to getting all the rest of our 15 lpars of
> IBM i added as destinations for production code.  The quote was way too
> high for what little went to most of those lpars.  For example our MAIL4
> lpar runs mainly Domino with just a few programs in our ROUTINES library
> for systems management.  For what few programs would get sent on an annual
> basis we felt that adding CM to that lpar was cost prohibitive.  Instead we
> spent that end of year capital money burning a hole in our pockets on a few
> skids of laptops, monitors and other such stuff.
>
> Rob Berendt
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> So, our company was just acquired by another company with deeper pockets
> and SoftLanding is asking an arm and a leg now to transfer the CMS to our
> new company.
>
> So, we are exploring alternatives.
>
> Could have up to 10-20 iseries devs working on the code base (which is
> large - hundreds for files/tables and thousands of pgms)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Is there a sharp learning curve for github enterprise (pro), compared to
> what we are used to now with TO?
>
> tia
>
> jay
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