RE: Overall BPCS performance

Where might one find a BPCS User Group?  I'm very interested 

Teri Hancock



-----Original Message-----
        From:   Graziano, Marie [SMTP:mgraziano@badgermeter.com]
        Sent:   Thursday, October 08, 1998 7:13 AM
        To:     'BPCS-L@midrange.com'
        Subject:        RE: Overall BPCS performance

        Vince:

        Yes this is an issue with many many BPCS 6.x users.  I will tell you
that if
        you do a prtsqlinf over the program you will see that the sql
statements are
        many and complex.  It will also tell you if it had to build paths.
If it
        did, then create a logical for the criteria.   
        Per BPCS SSA saying no one has this problem is nuts.  They are aware
of the
        slowwwwwwness.  If you belong to a local BPCS users group use that
avenue to
        get SSA to respond.  

        BYW-  are you mixed mode??

                        -----Original Message-----
                        From:   Vince Rowe [mailto:vrowe@zeus.odyssey.net]
                        Sent:   Wednesday, October 07, 1998 7:02 PM
                        To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
                        Subject:        Re: Overall BPCS performance

                        At 07:41 PM 10/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
                        >Has anyone addressed their overall system
performance
        decline since going to
                        >BPCS 6.x.  When we talk with them they try to
indicated
        that we are the only
                        >one addressing these types of problems.  (Which I
know is
        not true).
                        >
                        Here's our sad tale:  2+ years ago we started to
implement
        BPCS 5.x.x on a
                        nice little 310 AS/400.  Of course we had to move to
6.x.x,
        and over the
                        years we've landed on 6.0.2 PLF mixed mode March
Cum.  Over
        a year ago we
                        actually got COM to function and discovered to our
dismay
        that a one line
                        order took 20 minutes to confirm with no one else on
the
        box.  Well, the
                        cure was a 510 w/ 728M of memory and 60G of DASD.
We're
        supposed to go
                        live in 3 weeks and decided to do a stress test w/
10 CS
        people or so doing
                        order entry at 3 sites and a few others (trying) to
do
        various tasks that
                        would ordinarily be required to run a business.
Back to the
        20 minute
                        scenerio w/ COM timing out on two out of three
tries; simple
        GreenScreen
                        Material Status lookups took minutes; forget getting
        anything to print; and
                        the box was pegged for an hour *after* we completed
our 1
        hour test,
                        finishing up some 65 left over jobs..........When we
got the
        510, it was
                        the biggest box IBM made.  My question is:  can IBM
make a
        machine that is
                        up to the punishment BPCS hands out?  Yes, we've had
tuning
        specialist here
                        and our BPCS consultants have remarked that our
machine is
        the fastest
                        responding they've ever used.  

                        You are not alone.

                        Vince Rowe
                        vrowe@odyssey.net
                        Marietta Corporation
                        Cortland, NY
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