>>Hey! I was an AS/400 SME. Lay off the old girl. She did everything well.<<
IBM marketed the AS/400 as a departmental computer that can e run by the average secretary.
I assume you were not an average secretary? ;)
OS/400 was part of SAA until it wasn’t... ;);)
A dept secretary who could code in RPG. What a nightmare.
My previous job was converting a client-server system back to mainframe COBOL/CICS/IDMS for a recognizable jean company. That was 1998.
I code Groovy/Grails apps now but I still have to maintain C and COBOL programs.
No not the average secretary. I was on the product team that worked on putting a wintel server in the 400. We ran our financials and inventory management system off of them. Later on we used the RS6000 as our logistics platform and passed data to the 400.
Actually easy for a secretary to run providing all she did was print reporrts and add users. I managed close to 100 of them over a global network so it was a tad more complicated.
I miss the good ole days of LU 6.2 and 5250 emulation. Running everything off of twinax and later on token ring.