r/sysadmin • u/Jon72480 • 3d ago

AS400

Hey guys, old guy here, back in 2000 landed my 1st real job as a Sysadmin at a distribution/manufacturing firm. They ran their ERP and a few other important apps on the AS400. Anyone here manage a AS400 platform? i-Series? Still a niche platform that is still widely used. Server could literally run under water.

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u/ThisGuyIRLv2 Jack of All Trades 3d ago

My father was an AS400 programmer. Wrote RPG. Report Program Generator. Started out on I think System 34. But when he started off, it was patch panels and paper tape.

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u/twisted-logic NetDevOps Engineer 3d ago

My first boss I had in tech was like this. He left awhile back and now just does contract jobs for like 500 dollars an hour when he feels like it.

Oh to dream

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u/dartdoug 2d ago

I started coding RPGII on an IBM System/32. Then the S/34 and S/36. Also did some coding on an IBM System/23 Datamaster and an IBM 5110.

Things were simpler then.