Shamus_McFartfinger Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 or they want people to run those godawful AS-400's. (Nice machines from a programmer's end, but, nowhere near operator friendly.) For those of us not fluent in Geek , wtf is an AS-400? Server software of some sort, I guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 AS-400 = Application System series 400. Older more familiar versions: System 36. The AS-400 series was renamed to the iSeries in 2000 and then renamed again to System i5 this year. Anyway, it's an IBM minicomputer for general business use, also popular in governmental offices, that introduced in 1988 and still in production. Programmers love working on them because they're programmer centric and very secure machines, but, no one I know liked working with the one system we had at my last job. In fact, the biggest pain: the only way to know if a job was done after you submitted it was to list all available running programs, MANUALLY refresh the screen until it disappeared from memory, then try to find its log in the dump directory, read it, and try to decipher the messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus_McFartfinger Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 I see. It?s so clear now. Thanks. Can I ask a question? WTF is an AS-400? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Let's try it again... An IBM minicomputer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polopony Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Thanks man ,here in S florida there are 20 -30 jobs a day in my field Care to expand on that? I know a lady who gets 20-30 job offers a day and all she has to do is say ?OH GOD! OH GOD! OH YOU HUNK! OH GOD!? etc and so forth. she works for tips right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 And, naturally, after I post, yet another job offer in the area for expertise with that bloody iSeries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenadjian Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Happy birthday Polo, Sorry for the late cheer, just landed back from a 2 week cruse. Happy birthday mate, and good luck with the job hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus_McFartfinger Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Let's try it again... An IBM minicomputer. Would you type a little slower please? I?m still confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus_McFartfinger Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Ah! An AS-400. I wish you?d said so in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfcrule1972 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 What's an AS-400 ?? @polo - well done mate - $1 an hour, thats a fooking insult.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 BEHOLD! The face of the beast! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IBM_536...ont.triddle.jpg Well, one of its many faces. I worked with two of these things, the System/36 and the AS-400. The System 36 was like 700 pounds and had belt driven hard drives! The funny thing was the AS-400, meant to replace the System/36, turned out to be more difficult to use because the old code had to be rewritten for the new system, instead of just copied over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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