Re: IBM i 7.6 Development tools

Hi Daniel

I'm sorry but IBM made the right decision in letting go of the customer who
wants to have a solution based only on the old paradigm of a programmer an
application (Rpg + 5250).
Today, and in truth for many years, the market asks that the interface can
be chosen by the customer based on needs and not on IBM's prepackaged ideas
(Visual Age and EGL).
Whoever does not accept this paradigm is out of the market and IBM is right
not to indulge them.

Please take a deep look at IWS. It's free and works great.

Best regards
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Il giorno mer 23 apr 2025 alle ore 17:08 Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx> ha
scritto:

Am 23.04.2025 um 16:15 schrieb Jack Woehr via RPG400-L <

rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Then the IBM i just becomes one more database in the enterprise that

delivers up its data via APIs.

That would be very sad indeed - because if IBM i becomes "just another
database" it will be not the "integrated solution" that it was, since the
AS/400 was introduced.

Right now outside of the traditional ILE-RPG development, IBM i lacks that
"unique selling point" that it used to have for so long.

And IMHO IBM has dropped that ball long ago. First they tried Visual Age -
then everything had to be Java - then Websphere - then EGL (or should I say
WTF?) ... sometimes I thought IBM marketing was on a bad trip, and simply
threw buzzwords into the market so see if anything keeps hanging.

Today - if you follow the "unofficial rulebook" (aka mainstream), you
mostly give away the unique features of the platform. And that will slowly
but steadily lead the platform out of the company.

Maybe it's time to do something - I think that a group of developers could
take all those loose ends, and tie them together to an open source solution
that can re-integrate it all again.

Just my 0,02€ on that topic.

Regards,
Daniel
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