Re: AW: Tool to Modernize IBMi Screens into GUI

[Reeve <rfritchman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear IBM: if you make us learn completely new toolsets *and* abandon what
we've learned--in other words, if you don't feed us a few bananas--we will
become AWS developers, make a jillion bucks a year, and take up a new
hobby: getting V5R4 machines to IPL.

Product planners are notoriously detached from reality.  Products that
solve problems make profits.  Whiz-bangy stuff gets ignored.  Just saying.

On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM myibmi via RPG400-L <
rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   > So off spit-spot to your beds without supper!
>
> Why should I feed the monkey bananas if it doesn't like bananas?
>
> :-) Happy new year!
> kf
>
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> Jack Woehr via RPG400-L
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Januar 2025 17:53
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> Cc: Jack Woehr
> Betreff: Re: AW: Tool to Modernize IBMi Screens into GUI
>
> IBM correctly set the direction.
>
> They've been saying "API API API" for about 15 years in both IBM i space
> and mainframe space.
>
> They've dedicated what, for Rochester, amounts to a startling amount of
> resources to Open Source for over a decade.
>
> AND DID WE LISTEN ... by and large, No. So off spit-spot to your beds
> without supper!
>
> Happy New Year. Now get busy, factor your legacy applications into service
> programs, put an API face on them, and write your web applications
> off-platform calling those APIs.
>
> "And no nonsense out of you, hear?!" 🙂
>
>
> ________________________________
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> Parkins <goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2025 05:36
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: AW: Tool to Modernize IBMi Screens into GUI
>
> "it is IBM's job to set the direction"? I don't disagree at all ... but
> I fear that boat sailed long ago. Maybe part of the problem is the
> community didn't get on board as the boat left port? Who knows ... we
> are where we are.
>
>
>
> Jack Woehr
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