IBM Connect 2017 #3: I’ve Seen The Future of Domino and it is Sapho – The Domino Elf http://domino.elfworld.org/ibm-connect-2017-3-i-ve-seen-the-future-of-domino-and-it-is-sapho/
I just read this link and noticed about half way down the following statements under other news:
No more Domino for iSeries
What exactly does this mean since my IBM rep at the end of the year put a real hard sell on me to move my in house Domino email system to IBM Verse in the cloud. When I ask why he said there would be big
announcements about Domino at connections 2017 in February. This is the first I have heard this anybody have any info.
Subject: Read through a bit of “Designer going away”
… and without looking at it’s multi$k replacement, I wonder what they’re thinking.
Designer has some quirks. Plus, I’ve had to write version backup programs and custom design update programs to get around a few things. Been doing that a lot.
What Designer does do, is get things in your view that’re important. So far I’ve not seen an eclipse setup that does as well.
And … I reiterate, IBM doesn’t appear to recognize the flexible data & execution model that’s in Domino, and nowhere else.
If IBM had a product to jump to, I’d know by now. I’ve been looking for 15 years:
- Developer-accessible & extensible views (not dba).
- Standard-feature profiling: you can even profile validation rules (formula – and to some extent BASIC), which makes the app extremely flexible in different surroundings.
- Mixed-record, extensible database that can replicate as a unit.
- Standard Security model.
- Integration with existing databases, Java servers.
- Personal customization. Yes, I mean Notes. Web browsers suck for automating and optimizing a user’s job.
If I’d told 'em to wake me when they find all this, I’d be Rip van Winkle.
Subject: No more Domino for iSeries?
I have an entire iSeries dedicated to being a Domino web server - dropping support for the iSeries seems like the final nail in that coffin…
Subject: IBM I still supported
That information was not presented at my session at Connect. I have requested that be removed. To be clear IBM I is, and will be supported on Domino through the current code stream’s life cycle.