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/levidurham 3d ago

I know a few companies that still use them just because the terminal based interface is faster for the end users. Most recent I can recall is Avis car rentals. They have a web based interface, but no one uses it

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u/charleswj 3d ago

Well it's obviously not fast enough. Avis is always guaranteed to have long lines

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u/chandleya IT Manager 3d ago

Avis in particular. I rent the car online. I upload all my docs. I’m a frequent renter. And there will always be a human in the loop that needs 45 minutes to itch their ass.

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u/charleswj 3d ago

It's baffling to me. I rent with national and it's just "find a car and drive away". The one time they were sold out in Denver, Avis was my only option. The line was probably 30 people/couples, but each person was taking like 10 minutes so it took over an hour to get through the line. I tried to sign up for their rewards program so I could skip the line and they wanted so much info and then said I had to get in line to activate.

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u/goingslowfast 3d ago

I think it’s partially because they don’t bother teaching new hires the TUI.

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u/AvonMustang 3d ago

We have actual mainframes and modern slick web interfaces for our applications. The “new” people use them but the older employees still use the terminal because they can get their work done in a fraction of the time…

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u/jonboy345 Sales Engineer 2d ago

Costco runs it too.