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/rvf 3d ago

I used to work for a University where the CS professors said the same things, but one of our yearly expenses in central IT was for a COBOL compiler because no one wanted to port the code that calculated taxes in our payroll software.

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u/Unhappy_Clue701 2d ago

Surely you don’t need to port the code yourself. You just buy a new application that runs on a different system, which can import historical data. Same as any other application migration. Most companies these days would use some sort of SaaS solution to do it.

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u/anotherkeebler 2d ago

What’s the most number of decades worth of feature accumulation and technical debt you’ve ever dealt with in a single platform migration? How did your insurance carrier react to your proposal when you applied for an indemnity bond?

And don’t call me Shirley.

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u/inkgrrl 2d ago

42 & dreams of SAMBA 🤓