IBM i in the Intenet and Mobile Age (Was RE: Warning for IBM i WordPress Users)

Hi Henrik,

I think it depends on how you want to position the IBM i in the Internet and mobile age. The Internet age is no longer in its infancy. Browser based applications and mobile apps are becomeing more and more prevalent. The question is how you want to position the IBM i in this world.

You are certainly free to position the IBM i as nothing more than a business application server--the back end database and batch programs that run behind the scenes of web based applications and user interfaces.

But you are equally free to position the IBM i as a server that can serve web based applications, and host web services and REST services, as well as the back end database and batch programs. The IBM i has several good, popular, and proven tools for serving web based applications and hosting web services and REST services.

So, it seems to me, it's really a choice of how you want to make use of the IBM i in an age where Internet and mobile technologies are becoming highly prevalent.

I don't think our shop has made this choice yet. Right now, all of our web and mobile development runs through windows servers and uses the .NET Provider to access DB2 tables and stored procedures on the IBM i. If we keep this strategy, I think it will relegate the IBM i to a back end business server. However, I was happily surprised that our first mobile app developer uses the web storm development studio instead of visual studio (he only does the front end development), and I was happily surprised that my managers gave me the thumbs up to explore Node.JS on the IBM i. So it looks like the .NET world may not have such a tight grip on our shop after all. We might actually end up using the IBM I to serve web based applications, web services, and REST services after all.

Thanks,

Kelly Cookson
IT Project Leader
Dot Foods, Inc.
1.217.773.4486 ext. 12676
kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Henrik Rützou
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 8:12 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Warning for IBM i WordPress Users

Personally I have never understood why people place their WP (or other) homepage on their IBM I that basically is a Business Application Server.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Not sure if this will help, but I had a similar problem years ago.

http://blog.mowyourlawn.com/?p=580

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Open Source and IBM i. No Limits.


On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

For some time now we have been wrestling with trying to find out why
our WP site was automatically updating itself, but that all plug-ins
failed during the last step of the update for no obvious reason.

We have spent many hours and $s on this without resolution and have
had

to

resort to manually updating the plug-ins.

Why am I mentioning this? Because after the last round of updates a

number

of features on the site stopped working. Password resets, blog post
notifications, etc. It turns out that the WP update process has been
“lying” to us - the main wP software was no actually being updated
it

just

said it was. As a result we appear to be in a situation where the

plug-ins

are for a more recent version of WP than the one we were actually

running!

The net appears to have been that various functions failed.

We have now manually updated the main WP software and most of the

“broken”

functionality is working again - not all of it and we suspect that

database

corruption during the mis-match period may have caused this - we’re
still working on it.

So - this is just a heads up to any of you using WP that you may not
be

as

up-to-date as you think! And that may lead to other problems later.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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