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Are you an AS/400 user, with solid AS/400 skills, but want to take advantage of all the new things like Java and Internet ?
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Today's AS/400 is quite different from what it was a few years ago. New features are being introduced at ever increasing speed. Or so it seems. In reality, none of these features is really
new, they are just new to the AS/400 platform.
Over the years, we have built up a solid experience in many of these things. Combined with our intimate knowledge of the AS/400, we are able to get you up and running in the least possible time.
Of course, there is Java. It is not only a language, but there is also the object-oriented paradigm that is behind it. We switched to OO many years ago, and we started looking at
Java before it was even available on the AS/400.
But there are lots of other "new" products. Let's take the Web server that comes for free with every AS/400 as just one example. You know it's there, and you would like to set up an
intranet. You just don't know where to start. You could try and find a company that specializes in Web sites. Chances are that they wouldn't understand what it means when they
read "when the HTML is a source physical file, the member type must be set to HTML". Or you could turn to an AS/400 software house and discover that you are paying to educate their
personnel. We've been using the same Domino Go web server since before it was named Domino Go, and long before it was ported to the AS/400. What's more, we understand it
when its configuration screens ask about library lists and things.
There are much more examples like this. Check out our list of certifications and our experience
overview. Here are a few things that may not be immediately obvious:
- DB2/400: we've been using "advanced" features like referential integrity and triggers for years and years, and we're certified for IBM's UDB and Microsoft SQL Server.
Our first trigger program in RPG took us about half an hour.
- threads: introduced as a side-effect of the integration of the Java Virtual Machine, they are a powerful tool. We've been using threads ever since OS/2 1.3 - that's over ten
years. So we know the pitfalls, like reentrancy and thread synchronisation.
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