RE: Enough grunt for v4r5?

["Rick DuVall" <R_C_DuVall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everybody,

        Excuse me for busting in here.  I have a 620 2179 on v4r3.

        Are you saying that if I upgrade to v4r5 that I will have to purchase
interactive features for all 5250?

        That the act of upgrading the operating system alone can cause that?

        I had planned to never upgrade my machine due to the interactive tax - 
but
if I understand what you are saying, this means I am stuck at v4r3 from now
on!

        I love the AS/400, but my company can ill afford the interactive tax.  
Can
somebody clarify this?

Thanks
Rick



 > Really, really, _really_ research the interactive processor feature...

 > Tom Hightower
 > If IBM had a nickle for every time CFINT kicked in... oh wait, they do...



 >>Matthias Oertli <oertlim@s054.aone.net.au>
 >>Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
 >>08/01/01 04:10 AM
 >>Please respond to MIDRANGE-L

        To:        midrange-l@midrange.com
        cc:
        Subject:        Enough grunt for v4r5?
Hi,

We're looking at upgrading our box from v4r3 to v4r5 (just to get to a
supported release).

The machine is a 9402 400 with processor feature 2131. We have 160MB of
RAM and 24GB of disk with 16GB usable (combination RAID/MIRROR) of which
about 54% is used. It's supporting mainly green screen/telnet
interactive users (about 30) and a tiny bit of netserver stuff.

I wouldn't say we have performance problems, but response time sometimes
is borderline, I would not want to see it get worse.

My question: if we go to v4r5 do I have to expect diminished
performance? Greatly diminished performance?

If I was to upgrade the RAM to the maximum the box can take (I think
about 224MB) would this make a big difference?

Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Matthias


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