Alex: Welcome back to profound logic TV. Today I have with me Philip Roestamadji, marketing director at profound logic. Welcome.
Philip: Thanks Alex it’s great to be here.
Alex: Well, what I want to talk about today is the latest news that hit the IBM I community and that is IBM has released some early information about the next release of their operating system.
Philip: You’re right Alex. Apparently at this year’s RPG DV2 Summit, in German gave a key note presentation in which he talk about a little bit about the coming release is for 6.11 and 7.1. A particular interest was the 7.1 release in which he mentioned that there is a possibility of an RPG open IO feature.
Alex: And in fact, I was there at the event, and it was really an exciting announcement and really got a lot of people talking, I had all RPG developers come up to me and started conversation about what could this really mean to community.
Philip: That’s really interesting. What were you hearing from everybody about it?
Alex: Well, not a lot of information has been disclosed. But the two things I got is people are really excited, one of the possibility of using native RPG operations to access non DB2 types of databases so you could read operations like read and write in RPG to access, Oracle and my sequel data bases. Now number 2 the one that the aspect of this really gets me excited is that there now’s possibility that you can use native RPG to interface with browser applications or XML or web services or mobile devices.
Philip: Well that’s really interesting to hear Alex, but I also understand that this is really not an end solution, but more of an open door for developers and vendors and the community is the whole to be able to build applications and solutions directly from RPG.
Alex: Well it’s probably why they’re calling it open I/O, open in the sense that it opens the RPG so we as a community can determine what the language is going to be all about.
Philip: Yeah and this really opens up RPG as the modernization avenue, so take for example a typical European vendor who was all the applications written on RPG instead of having to screen scrape or rewrite their entire application they can potentially achieve true modernization, in a more native manner.
Alex: Now it’s interesting that you mentioned native, because native was the community is been asking for a long time, I need the graphical user interface on the I/O and that what the goal here at the fallen logic has been in my personal mission is to deliver that kind of native graphical user interface. All of our efforts and products but with open I/O this types of efforts are going to be just easier to accomplish.
Philip: The development team here from profound logic has been a hard at work on some solutions to take advantage of this feature when it’s release.
Alex: Oh yeah even prior to the announcement IBM is working with the ISP’s and ERP vendors and other individuals in the community to shape up this feature, we members of our team have participated in this discussions in fact we made a lot of progress internally towards solution that allow you create browser interfaces to be used directly from RPG operation codes and at this time we put together a list of potential beta testers for this solutions.
Philip: Yeah in fact we want to invite our viewers here to sign up to become potential beta testers as well.
Alex: Yeah we definitely welcome any of the profound logic TV viewers to sign up, it’s very simple you can us a quick note to open I/O data at profoundlogic.com or you can fill out a contact information form on profoundlogic.tv
Philip: That’s sounds great Alex and I just want to say that I'm really excited about the 7.1 release, specifically about the open I/O and I really feel that this could really be potentially ground breaking advancement for the IBM community.
Alex: Oh I agree, I think this is going to be a very important new feature for our RPG developers and we’re definitely keep you up to date here on profound logic TV but we want to hear what you think of RPG open I/O and you can post your comments here on the site. I want to thank you for watching and we’ll talk to you again soon.
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