Planet i

After yesterday's post where I pointed to an article that encouraged people to migrate their IBM i machines to Windows or Linux in the cloud and let your hosting company do all the work, including system maintenance, I started thinking about times in my professional career where things went wrong because the vendor or an executive over promised and couldn't deliver. Here's two cautionary tales I've run into when migrating to a new system, and things didn't quite work out as promised.

One time, we migrated a production application from a z-series machine to an AS/400 (as it was known then). After migration, we discovered two things: Continue reading →

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