Say hello to a T-rex without getting eaten alive.

That’s right the only chance you’ll ever get.
Hello chaps and chapettes.

I’m a 44 year old male from Amsterdam. In my daily job I work with almost extinct technologies and hardware.
(ILE RPG and COBOL on IBM AS/400 and iSeries.)
I’m also the only parent of a very independant 12-year old son.

Looking forward to tutor myself, with (some) help from this community, in the awesome new technologies contained in MODx.
I used Gilmore’s book "A programmer’s introduction to PHP 4.0" while amending some PHP scripts, but never with something more complex like a framework and/or CMS.

Looking forward to MODxing myself into a MODxking.

Cheers,
Robert The MOD(re)x

Welcome to the community Robert.

Chuck

Welcome to the community Robert

Happy MODx’ing

regards,

zi

I used to play with an AS/400, with OS/400, the thing was pretty old, about the size of three large refrigerators; I actually got into the server room once. I was working my way through all the built-in tutorials during my lunch breaks. They were replacing it with a mishmash of PCs running Dos programs in Windows 95 with a Novell network. What a riot. This was at the University of Miami’s school of medicine, their hospital and clinics. They managed to lose over a year’s worth of doctor’s procedure dictations, and only had half of it backed up. The only thing they were still using the AS/400 for (and the only thing there was never a bit of trouble with in the two years I worked there) was for the outpatient appointments system for the entire campus. We used it for the lists of patients whose records we needed to pull and deliver to the clinics for their appointments the next day.

Hello people, thanks for stopping by and saying hello.
Quote from: sottwell at Jul 08, 2006, 01:46 PM

.....and the only thing there was never a bit of trouble with .....

That’s what OS/400 is famous for : stability.
And good for you that you’re involved in other things than IBM midrange now.
It’s hard to get work (at least in The Netherlands) as an RPG analyst/programmer. COBOL is OK, it’s ever so popular on midrange and mainframe.

BTW, the size of the boxes has come down years ago to "shove it under the desk".
IBM used to make a portable AS/400 (w/ pictures) and portable AS/400 (w/o pictures) once, but that one was built around CISC architecture CPUs, and when IBM switched to RISC architecture they slowly killed it. Which also meant that newer RISC versions of OS/400 were not installable.
IBM lost the client/server race at the client side, when they decided to stick with character based monochrome green screens.
Users wanted eyecandy, and I can’t blame them.
They are always happy with AS/400 stability and performance. But they always knock the green screens. So in fact looks killed AS/400, iSeries, and now i5.
They easily could have won the race, because OS/400 is running on (for servers optimized) PowerPC processors. (Think Apple.)
IBM once (secretly?) manufactured PowerPC CPUs for Apple when Motorola was incapable to keep up with production. (Low yields.)
It would have been easy to strike a license deal with Apple to port the OS X graphical shell to Client Access Express and some OS/400 server objects.
Boy did we speculate when OS X was released for the first time.
We know better now.
Companies like http://www.californiasoftware.com/ and http://www.asna.com/ are making a killing for years migrating legacy AS/400 apps to graphical shells and moving AS/400 programming to a native PC environment (.NET). Generating C/C++ or managed .NET code from RPG source code.

I’ll shut up, before I wake up anyone. LOL.