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Toggle navigation Home About Lists List Archives Wiki Contact Supporters Contribute Status Welcome to MIDRANGE.COM! Midrange.com provides a large number of resources for users and developers of IBM i (System i5 / iSeries / AS400) computers. Here you can find ... Online discussion forums (via mailing lists) with searchable archives that cover the complete range of IBM i related topics. Newsgroup access to mailing lists. A community maintained WIKI resource. The largest resource is the mailing lists and their associated archives. These lists cover every topic related to IBM i use and development. Participation in the lists is by subscription only, but subscription is free. All resources are provided free of charge as a service to the online IBM i community. If you have questions or comments about the services that provides, please feel free to contact @support. . About was created to be a free online resource for IBM i (formerly System i, iSeries, & AS400) professionals. started life as The Midrange System BBS ... which was created as a cheaper alternative to News/34-38’s NewsLink service. The first hardware the BBS ran on was a Compaq Portable II with a 12mhz 80286 CPU and a 20mb hard disk. In 1993, the internet was starting to become popular, and on a lark, the domain was registered and a UUCP account was setup with a local ISP. Using software that allowed the BBS forums to be gated to email based mailing lists, the first list hosted by was created ... MIDRANGE-L. About a year later, the BBS system suffered a catastrophic hardware failure. Obviously this caused a bit of a disruption. After careful review, it was determined that the BBS concept would be abandoned, but the mailing list was still quite viable. After a bit of research, a new Linux system was installed and mailing list software setup. currently runs on Amazon AWS Lightsail instances. was created, is maintained, owned, and operated, by David Gibbs . David is a Sr. Software Engineer for O’Reilly Auto Parts. Mailing List Archives All mailing list’s hosted by are available in a searchable web archive. The archives are broken down by list, year, and month. The software used to create the archives makes a ’best effort’ attempt to mask email addresses. The archives can be found at archive. . Contact Us The best way to contact is us via email. Send email to @support. . In the event you cannot contact us via the email address shown above, you can also contact us at @fallingrock.net . Mailing Lists provides a number of email based online disucssion forums. Most of the lists are topic specific ... the RPG400-L list is for RPG discussion; the MAPICS-L list is for discussion of the MAPICS ERP system, etc. General IBM i topics are best suited to the MIDRANGE-L list. MIDRANGE-L : Midrange Systems Technical Discussion BPCS-L : Infor (formerly SSA) BPCS ERP System C400-L : Bare Metal Programming IBM i (including MI programming) COBOL400-L : COBOL Programming on the IBM i Consult400 : Consulting on the IBM i (posting of contract positions is allowed on this list) Domino400 : Lotus Domino on the IBM i JAVA400-L : Java Programming on and around the IBM i LINUX5250 : Linux 5250 Development Project MAPICS-L : MAPICS ERP System Discussion MIDRANGE-JOBS : Midrange Jobs: Postings & Discussion (contract & consulting positions not allowed) Midrange-NonTech : Non-Technical Discussion about the IBM i PcTech : PC Technical Discussion for IBM i Users RPG400-L : RPG programming on the IBM i SYSTEM21 : System 21 Users WDSCI-L : Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries WEB400 : Web Enabling the IBM i OpenSource : Open source software and IBM i Supporters Special thanks to the following companies and individuals for their direct (financial) and indirect support ... Larry Bolhuis - Franken i : For hosting services. Contribute There are numerouss ways you can help support ’s continued operation... Purchase stuff at amazon.com. Just visit amazon.com via this link and we will receive a comission on your puchases. A direct contribution via paypal using the button below. Copyright © 1993- and David Gibbs. IBM, IBM i, iSeries, i5, and AS/400, are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation. is not affiliated with IBM, Midrange Computing, Midrange Systems, or...