RE: AS/400 Upgrade charges

Barb,
You're bringing back memories.  While, in itself, it doesn't justify the
expense, our payroll processing used to take 45 minutes to 1 hour before our
upgrade and just 5 minutes after the upgrade!  Also, our COM users went from
hating the system to loving it all because of response time.
Ed Chabot
Marlin Firearms Co.

-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:mapics-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Barb Nash
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 9:37 AM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: AS/400 Upgrade charges


Hi Pete,
        We are release 5.5.  History files are archived and deleted at the
beginning of each year.  Reorgs, as well as RCLSTG and RCLSPLSTG are done
quarterly.  Also we do not have AP.  We have added DASD and maxed out the
memory.  Right now performance is not that bad unless we have a lot of power
users on at once.... Monday's and Tuesday's are bad due to payroll
processing, and of course right before month end when everyone is trying to
get finished up for the month.  My fear is when we add these additional
Non-MAPICS files and applications..... I don't feel I should be charged a
chunk of change if my MAPICS is going to remain the same and am trying to
avoid this.  Otherwise, it will be years before we can upgrade our hardware.

Thanks for the suggestions!
Barb

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Pete Olshavsky@htol [mailto:peteo@htol.net]
Sent:   Friday, May 24, 2002 9:22 AM
To:     mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: AS/400 Upgrade charges

Hello Barb,
    This would only be a Band-Aid. What release of Mapics are you on? But
have you tried to archive some of your history files. Some of these can get
very large. And have you done the Mapics reorg lately.  When records get
deleted they still take up space in the files. This also could buy you some
DASD. Also a rclsplstg to clean up deleted spool files. Also in A/P if you
to do check reconciliation you need to do a purge to move from the opnpay
files to the history files. Then archive to tape.


Pete Olshavsky
Ind Mapics Analyst/Systems Analyst

----- Original Message -----
From: Barb Nash <Barb.Nash@phbcorp.com>
To: <mapics-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:21 PM
Subject: AS/400 Upgrade charges


Hi all,
I apologize if I am revisiting an old topic, but have searched
through the archives and did not find a definite answer.  In the near future
we are looking to put several non-MAPICS applications/files on our AS/400.
It is a 9402-400, 2131, in the P10 processor group, CPW 20.6, memory and
DASD maxed out (don't laugh). Current response time during prime working
hours, running MAPICS only, is fair to poor.  I'm afraid that adding these
additional systems is going to bring it to its knees.  That being said, and
economic conditions being the way they are, we need to avoid the hefty
MAPICS upgrade charges if we want a new box (we are still on tiered
pricing).  Are these upgrade charges processor group based?  Is it possible
to stay in the P10 group, avoid the charges and get something with more
oomph? Or better yet, move to the P05 group and lower our incredibly high
ALF's and still increase our CPW?   There are no plans to add or change any
our MAPICS applications.  Why should have to pay software charges to upgrade
our hardware?

Thanks in advance!

Barb Nash
PHB, Inc.
Fairview, PA
(814) 474-1552 ext. 225
Barb.nash@phbcorp.com



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