Help, I'm a dinosaur!
That's a point, Chris. In fact, I got a question in an interview recently about my use of IFS and quite frankly I've been in two Fortune 200's during the last seven years and it wasn't used for anything we did, so these guys interviewing me didn't find that useful because they said they were trying to FTP from it. I wrote an automated FTP scripting system a few years ago as part of a larger project to exchange data, but all the FTP'ing we did was through OS/400 libraries. That irritates me to no end that whatever I happened to have worked on is used to select me versus another person for an AS/400 job but I can imagine it's even worse for those that didn't happen to get package experience at large corporate shops as I did. Still, if very specific experience can be found I understand the hiring of that experience. As a result of this discussion I think I will read up on the IFS and see what capabilities it brings that hasn't been utilized in the standard RPG package environment of the past. rd
That's a point, Chris. In fact, I got a question in an interview recently about my use of IFS and quite frankly I've been in two Fortune 200's during the last seven years and it wasn't used for anything we did, so these guys interviewing me didn't find that useful because they said they were trying to FTP from it. I wrote an automated FTP scripting system a few years ago as part of a larger project to exchange data, but all the FTP'ing we did was through OS/400 libraries. That irritates me to no end that whatever I happened to have worked on is used to select me versus another person for an AS/400 job but I can imagine it's even worse for those that didn't happen to get package experience at large corporate shops as I did. Still, if very specific experience can be found I understand the hiring of that experience. As a result of this discussion I think I will read up on the IFS and see what capabilities it brings that hasn't been utilized in the standard RPG package environment of the past. rd
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