Re: Release 7 on a 720 iSeries

We currently run Release 5.5 on a 720.  We are in the process of
preparing to upgrade to Release 7.x, but it will be on a new i520
Enterprise platform.  

My impression is that a Model 720 would be an adequate platform for
Release 6, but not for Release 7.  My understanding is also that
System-Link (XML) and Net-Link (HTML) are recommended to run on an
auxiliary server or servers, not the iSeries platform.  Since you're not
currently using either of those, they're not an issue.

The latest release of Power-Link (Java) is now running in Embedded Mode,
meaning it's running on the client workstation, not on the server.  Are
you running this version?  However, even with the latest version the
Java startup on the server does have a hefty CPU spike and opening the
data paths on first use would cause the initial sessions to take a
while.

Infor does have some performance monitoring/improvement resources
available to assist you in finding out what's going on and tuning it.
But I suspect your 720 platform performance with Release 7 is the
fundamental issue.  Not sure that can be remedied without upgrading to a
better platform, which is what we are planning to do.

Terry J. LeBlanc
Nailite, Inc. 
TLeBlanc@xxxxxxxxxxx 
(786) 284-1953 

  

-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas, Lisa
(Hayssen)
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:15 AM
To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [MAPICS-L] Release 7 on a 720 iSeries

Are any of you running Release 7 on a 720 iSeries?  We did a stress test
last Friday and brought things to a halt.  I had 26 users in PowerLink,
not using System-Link or Net-Link, around 25 other users in green screen
and around 50 users using Release 6.

 

Our PowerLink sessions are taking almost 2 minutes to start-up.

 

Any one seeing similar response times?

 

Lisa

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