Re: Costco still on IBM i?

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> IWS is a good tool. But ... while I have huge respect for Amra and what he
> has achieved, there is just not enough IBM support behind it.  Take look at
> the manual - last I saw it was still from 2018 and wildly out of date.
> Updated info is mostly buried in tutorials.
>
> The biggest problem many shops have is that, without in-house Java
> experience, troubleshooting can be really problematic. Also for any modern
> authority checking like OAuth 2 or JWT or ... you have to write custom Java
> code. Any public-facing web service will need that. It also is nowhere near
> as fast as the alternatives.


Java?  Node works great for that.   The main issue is trying to get people
to understand how to keep the node server up and running.  Just make calls
to a web service to do the work.

Done it for many customers.  Works great.