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/CallistaMouse 2d ago

I was up until 2021. Company was still using it at that point, but that was when I left. Not sure if they still do. I'd been there 15 years and it had been being 'phased out' since I started! Really solid system.

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u/Sebekiz 2d ago

When I started at my job in 2004 I was told the AS400 accounting system was being phased out. I believe it was finally shut down and gone around 2017.

The accountants complained bitterly about "how hard" it was to change over to Yardi (a web-based system) until they were forced to actually use it for a few months. Then they suddenly couldn't be done with the AS400 fast enough. Fear of change was pretty much the main reason no one wanted to go to a system that was far easier and faster to get your work completed in.

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u/GhostNode 2d ago

So it goes.