AS/400 How does it look?

[Terrence Enger]

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:26 -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Terrence Enger
> <tenger-P1ovA8G34VBEfu+5ix1nRw at public.gmane.org> wrote:>
> [...]--pay no attention to the jeering from the
> > cheap seats--[...]
> 
> Having been up for some 30 hours and in the face of other personal
> difficulties I'm going to limit my comments as follows:

Scott,

Go to bed.  Do not even think of reading this until tomorrow.

...

Uh uh.  Bed I said!

> 
>  * I've worked as an Operator in a couple of Data Centers hosting
> AS/400 environments & applications.  Terrence, you're a (note the
> small-g!) god in this sense.  Thank you for divulging even these
> tidbits of information.  I for one find them very helpful.  I only
> wish I'd had you're knowledge years ago; that would've been
> spectacular.

Thank you for your appreciation.

The people on this list have been helpful and patient with me over the
years, and I am greatly in their debt.  Just hope I don't get carried
away now that there is a question I know a little bit about.
> 
> * I'm not entirely certain I understand you're reference to "the
> jeering from the cheap seats."  

I am just self-conscious for suggesting that I am very productive as a
programmer.  Those imaginary jeers are saying "Terry?  Productive?
Hah!"

> Although not entirely on-topic for
> this list I believe it to be an important discussion - even if for no
> other reason than that the knowledge you're handing out is hard to
> find elsewhere.  Maybe I haven't looked in the right places before.
> Still I, and possibly/probably the OP find your comments informative.

<excuse>You can run a Linux partition on the AS/400.</excuse>

I really hate to admit it, wanting so much to be useful and all, but
there are other sources around.

(*) Seneca College offers courses.

(*) The local user group, "Toronto Users Group for Power Systems"
<http://www.tug.ca/> holds about five general meetings a year.  In those
meetings, you will get about ten presentations on topics of current
interest, with quality ranging from very good to very, very good indeed.
(I am not responsible for their web site.  Absolutely not.  That is my
story, and I am sticking to it.  Okay, I looked it up; the office
telephone number is 905-607-2546.)

(*) That same group runs an education conference each spring, two days
of engrossing presentations and commonly another day of hands-on
tutorials.  I recommend it highly for anyone programming the platform or
responsible for managing an installation.  I write this as one who goes
on my own dime.

(*) midrange.com runs a bunch of mailing lists
<http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo>.  MIDRANGE-L, for general
technical discussion, is very active and informative.

(*) Various installations share an AS/400 over the web.  This is useful
for hacking around on things in the absence of a customer.

(*) The web, of course, if it needs saying.  Always the web.
> 
> I'd like to make additional comments on some specific points you've
> made in this thread - and the other on AS/400 Command Definitions -
> but to be certain, I need to sleep first.

And just how long is it since I sent you to bed, young man?  Go!
<grin />

Cheers,
Terry.
> 
> Thanks for your posts.
> - Scott.
> 
> 
> PS - I'm sure many on this list could also tell you about my
> affections for "off-topic" information.  ;-)
> 

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