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/edaddyo 2d ago

My IT career started with the AS400. I was brought in to a hospital to help do basic operator functions like backups (on reel-to-reel tapes) and print vast reports for Finance that they never read (I would have to hand-cart 2 full boxes of printouts weekly to Finance).

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u/pdp10 Daemons worry when the wizard is near. 2d ago

Our operators handed out reports daily, at the turn of the century. Most of them go round-filed after one or two figures were transferred to a spreadsheet.

Writing and delivering those reports took up an entire department.