Re: How many of you will stay at V7R5 lower due to SDA removal ?

Hello,

Am 26.07.2025 um 00:38 schrieb x y <xy6581@xxxxxxxxx>:

But here's one big problem with Patrik's scenario: why hasn't SEU been end-of-life'd? It likely uses the same development framework and one would think it suffers from the same ailments as SDA.

This is an interesting question I have no definitive answer for, just wild guesses:

- Because the shitstorm from the devs would be immense?
- Killing SDA might have been a test case for killing SEU in the future?
=> That would leave the platform without any local editor, not just for code. A serious lack, IMHO!
- Because IBM at one point has already rewritten SEU to a supportable code base?

Hey IBM: how about inviting a couple of user Big Brains, folks with no IBM
history as an employee or contractor, to your dev locations and show them
what tools you use in your labs?

Ahaha, that would probably leave those Big Brains with big headaches. :-) I've been told that in earlier times, OS/400 wasn't built (compiled) in OS/400 but in AIX, and then transferred to the platform somehow. Not sure if and to which extent this has changed since those days.

Mankind overall is a bunch of lazy monkeys: If it works good enough, effort is ceased. This became especially perceivable when effort started to be directly measurable in money. Excellence is a thing of a few.
IMHO stopping at "good enough" speeds up obsolescence and the requirement to frequently reinvent things because "good enough" has become unsustainable.

:wq! PoC