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Bob, Warning, I work for and Imaging and COLD manufacturer. I will make this statement not product specific and try to give you some good advice. The volume of images and your bandwidth across your WAN are big variable factors here. I suggest you run some tests and maybe limit the size of the batches. Also, the number of employees you have accessing these images make a big difference in retrieval performance, especially for accessing 3995s with a lots of simultaneous hits. These units are designed for long term storage and not geared for hundreds of hits per hour. For high volumes of access requests, I'd recommend staying with DASD arrays. If you are going with the 3995s, I recommend that direct attached units (the C40 series) these have better performance than the LAN attached units that require an OS/2 server ( not that there is anything wrong with OS/2) and definitely go with multiple drives per juke. For storage usage, plan on the average single page image of text using 50K of storage (Compressed) either on DASD or Optical. For scanners you have a lot of choices on the market, Fujitsu, Bell and Howell, Kodak, etc. I personally see the new Kodak units performing with more uptime than other units. All of the wearable parts, (Rollers) are easily replaceable in under a minute versus calling a technician to come on site and dismantle and replace rollers (like a copier) with other units. Bob, a lot depends on your business processes. If you are processing tens of thousands of invoices a day, your answers would be different from storing a few hundred technical drawings a day. Hope this helps. Good Luck! Regards, Alan Schuetze Magellan Software The Leader In Document Mining Technology* Tel: 949-455-9551 Fax: 949-455-9664 www.magsoft.com <http://www.magsoft.com> -----Original Message----- From: Marion, Bob [SMTP:Bob.Marion@ps.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 11:28 AM To: 'Midrange-L@Midrange.com' Subject: ImagePlus (VisualInfo) on AS/400 Greetings: Has anyone in this group implemented ImagePlus (VisualInfo) on an AS/400. I am researching the specifics on implementation, functionality, manageability and how well it works in a mutil-location environment across a WAN. The scanning will be done at multiple sites and the images will be sent to a central AS/400 where the images will be stored and retrieved from multiple 3995 Optical Library. We already have IBMs COLD storage software, OnDemand/RDARS, for reports and it performs exceptionally. Of course the images will take more DASD and Optical space and more network resources for sends and retrievals. TIA. Bob Marion AS/400 Technical Support Phone: 972/461-3186 Fax: 972/461-3030 EMail: bob.marion@ps.net +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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