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Oh let me rush to defend my favorite platform, the iSeries. The platform, regardless of which, is not to blame. It is the laziness of most IT shops which either don't have any process in place or only pay it lip service. iSeries machines (AS/400) serve many different client interaction methods, from green screen, web services, ODBC, NodeJS via Qshell, and more. If employed properly the iSeries has some of the best security in the industry, reason why many are used by banks all over the world, hospitals, the gambling industry, and more. Failure occurs for the same reason it does anywhere else, not having a process in place and following it. As for currency with what is available today, iSeries access is facilitated through a JAVA based client which works on Windows, OS X, and Linux. It is the same java application throughout and even provides ODBC access through java drivers and for windows you can opt into a subset of windows exe/dlls. There is a full blown web service hooked to it as well that runs on the server as needed. It is up and down fully SSL too. |