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> but the design has plenty of drawbacks As somebody who has never been near an AS/400, what are those drawbacks? Besides the environment being weird in the se
by krylon 9y ago
> but the design has plenty of drawbacks
As somebody who has never been near an AS/400, what are those drawbacks? Besides the environment being weird in the sense that it is unlike anything else?
The only bad thing I have ever someone say about the AS/400 was a supervisor I worked for during my training who had at one point written RPG programs, and she said ... some pretty unfriendly things about RPG. Which is not say that's the only problem; like I said, I have no knowledge of the system beyond what Wikipedia tells me about it.
- snuxoll 9y agoThere’s extremely limited compatibility with POSIX software, PASE exists but you aren’t just going to be porting applications with minimal or zero effort. Honestly IBM i makes little sense as a modern application platform, and DB2 for i is wonky plus licensing for it sucks (if you’re connecting from anything but Java where you can use open source drivers expect to pay through the node for DB2 Connect unless your application also runs on i).