RE: Test Development System Survey (HIPAA)

I went back to the archives to search for this discussion that I recalled 
reading (it was from July 2003 titled "Test Development System Survey")... 

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We are currently using our AS400 production box for development as well 
(the test/production systems are separated by logins/environment variables). 
How many of you all also combine both on one machine, and has this caused
performance problems for you? Or do you use a test machine for development
specifically because of this (or wish you had one)?
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We also have one iSeries partition housing all of our environments (Lawson 
HCM).  I'm starting to hear news that we will be moving our dev/test 
environments to a separate partition due to HIPAA requirements.  Has anyone 
else started to hear the same, or already acted on HIPAA requirements by 
splitting environments yet?  Any tips/benefits/drawbacks for having Lawson 
7.2.2.6 Prod/Dev environments on separate iSeries partitions?

I saw a couple of strings in the archives that mentioned HIPAA requirements, 
but they didn't appear to focus on the issue of splitting Prod/Dev/Test 
environments in order to comply with the extensive set of privacy/security 
standards that are defined by HIPAA. 

I don't want to resurrect the original discussion as to which methodology is 
better...  However, as a sidebar, I would like to know if anyone has been able 
to tie Osama Bin Laden or Al-Qaida to the creation of the HIPAA requirements.  
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Thanks,
Steve