A New Development Framework on iSeries or i5/OS: Architecture
Ludo Dierckx and Wim Van Leuven - May 18, 2005

Introduction

The iSeries server, IBM's showpiece and well-known successor of the AS/400, has been implemented on a large scale over the past twenty-five years in small and medium businesses (SMB). This midrange computer is still being praised because of its operational ease-of-use, its reliability, flexibility, and scalability. However, because it lacks a graphical user interface and poorly integrates with other software products, its use has declined and users have shifted towards more user-friendly Windows and INTEL based systems ...