Re: IBM i 7.6 will be the last release that will deliver the following functions from the IBM i portfolio:

I have played with it a long time ago, but since I have moved to web
development, and now do graphics very easily using JavaScript routines.
The best thing you can do is to use the green screen yourself, and for the
new development do it for the web.

On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

My first experience with QGDDM, from when I started on a S/38 in 1984/5,
is wondering "What is this Q-God-D**m thing they keep talking about?".

It did have some interesting stuff for the technology at the time.

Then, I learned about "Stripper Twitter" - STRPRTWTR. Fond memories.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power



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Subject: Re: IBM i 7.6 will be the last release that will deliver the
following functions from the IBM i portfolio:

James! Do you mean you never used GDDM?

I actually played with it a little maybe 25 years ago - maybe more than
that. It had some interesting ways to represent things like progress
bars with reverse image glyphs, I think - kind of neat once upon...

*Regards*

*Vern Hamberg*

IBM Champion 2025 <cid:part1.PhB9rAqA.oc8X6PYX@centurylink.net> CAAC
(COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023

On 5/2/2025 7:37 PM, James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

On 5/2/25 5:13 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

The only one that bothers me is the removal of BRMS perpetual
license. That's a harbinger of the future with the products they
turned over to Fortra.

And the only thing on the list that I even recognize is SDA, and I
have boxes at my disposal that run SDA just fine.

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