Re: IBM i 7.6 Development tools

IMO, IBM was trying to provide options, but the vast majority of customers
refused to budge from 5250.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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