Re: Installing MAPICs on your shopfloor AS/400

<quote>Did MAPICS envision us using Enterprise Integrator 
for all of our application development including shopfloor systems on 
remote AS/400s? Is this a crazy idea? </quote>

I think Mapics (Infor XA) did envision you using Enterprise Integrator like 
this.  It is not crazy at all.  In EI, you can define a data source other than 
your primary as400 (iseries/i5/whatever).  You can also move the java servers 
to another machine, including a linux machine installed on an lpar of your 
shopfloor system if you really want to get crazy.

<quote>But I want my shop floor systems to 
have separate servers so that production is not interrupted if the AS/400 
on which the main MAPICS environment resides goes down. </quote>

You can put data and processes on another machine, however, all this gets you 
is load balancing, not failover.  In other words, your main installation still 
controls all transactions even though the processing/data may be taken care of 
elsewhere.  I've never heard of two seperate installations of XA synchronizing 
with each other.  I'm not one of the guys that's been around this forever, so 
don't take my word for it, but I've never heard of using two XA systems in a 
failover type configuration.

Hope this helps.

Josh Diggs
Information Systems Manager
California Fine Wire
(805) 489-5144