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annilation said:sadly enough I work with it daily. I f*$&#*! hate it. I did know they used it until after I took the job I never used it before either. According to talk where I am at they are phasing it out within the next year so they want windows people for when the swap happens. Run like hell from learning it trust me its a system that is slowly fading out and no one is missing it. We just bought a blade system that does the same job for all of our as/400 machines.
infamus said:i hope to god theyre phasing it out. it so reminds me on an old public library terminal.
it runs the casino and hotel i work at and it runs EVERYTHING! anything from the slot machines to the guest check out of the hotel.
i just want to learn a little more while im still working where im at. only to make myself more valuable. more value=more pay (supposidly)
shade91 said:Fat chance of that.. a lot of major banks run it as do major corporations. While I simply cannot stand OS400 I'd put an IBM iSeries/AS400 hardware up against any Wintel machine.
And they likely know that with AS/400 skills, it doesn't matter who employs them, they will always have a job somewhere.annilation said:Trust me do not spend a minute learning this system. It is the devil avoid it like you would the plague. Take that time and learn windows server, unix, anything but AS/400 trust me. At work its like watching the Titanic sink. We have a group of AS/400 guru's (about 10 of them all with bloated salaries) that I doubt will have jobs in 6 months.
XOR != OR said:And they likely know that with AS/400 skills, it doesn't matter who employs them, they will always have a job somewhere.
Government orgs use AS/400s. Like DoJ stuff. There will always be a place for an AS/400 engineer, whatever everyone's opinion of it is.
unix_foo said:Just like any other "endangered" platform, don't waste your time learning it.
k1pp3r said:Dang why all the hate for the 400, I used one everyday for over 2 years, my current job I use it every now and then when a client has a problem. The system is a tank, I have yet to see one go down from a software crash (power supply blew out at my last job, which took part of the system down).
They are out there, Banks, hospitals, construction companys still use them. I for one like the system, its powerful and you can let it chug along with no major maintence like on a windows server.
Guess i'm just rare but I still like the system.
Oh the book I had was "starter kit for the IBM iSeries & AS/400" if you are interested.
Exactly. I'm being trained on one where I work ( police dept ), and I can't wait to list that bulletin on my resume.shade91 said:They're the most stout machines on the market. They have a level of quality control that Dell/HP could only dream of. I've worked on at least 30 different AS400's in the past 5 years. Only 1 had a problem that baffled even IBM's techs that we had come on-site (RAID backplane issue). They're a tough machine to learn and even tougher machine to integrate services with in Wintel/Lintel networks. Major banks run them (WaMu) as do small banks (they generally lease access from an ASP). Major warehousing and logistics applications run on them as well. The only thing dying out about them are their admins. They will be around for a very long time. To the haters who insist that the AS400 is garbage and dying out - thank you very much. The less of you there are the more consulting jobs I get on AS400 work.
shade91 said:To the haters who insist that the AS400 is garbage and dying out - thank you very much. The less of you there are the more consulting jobs I get on AS400 work.
shade91 said:The only thing dying out about them are their admins. They will be around for a very long time. To the haters who insist that the AS400 is garbage and dying out - thank you very much. The less of you there are the more consulting jobs I get on AS400 work.