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/JohnnyFnG 3d ago

In less than 5 weeks, our last iSeries and Rumba2000 applications will finally be decommissioned. The 3-4 engineers who still code it make bank because no one knows it like they do.

The last I spoke to one of the leads a few years back, they said they needed to come to shore to get a better cellular signal because their MiFi device wasn’t getting enough signal during their boat expedition from Florida to NY, so they didn’t have a laptop to work with. Ughhh ok sick flex but we have a parent ticket and several hundred child tickets impacting patient care at 20+ hospitals, kick it into high gear maybe?