Re: AW: IBM i 7.6 Development tools

The integrated solution went away when the AS/400 name was retired.  That was also when AIX and AS/400 merged into one unhappy family on Power.

The AIX guys in TX slowly took over everything in Rochester. Rochester tried, but eventually lost the battles.  To the AIX team, it is, just another Database.

However, the best selling point for IBM i is the robustness of the OS.  It never goes down and is the most secure platform out there.    That's why many banks still use Iseries on the backend.

Gavin.

On 4/23/2025 11:13 AM, myibmi via RPG400-L wrote:

Daniel,

100 % agree! And a word to the web enthusiasts: If you're going to do web development, you need more than just an HTML mask. Much more!

Regards,
Karl

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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