I am not a sales guy but I get asked a lot of questions from my customers
about hardware configurations. Most of them I can answer but lately it has
gotten a bit more difficult to figure out what the right answer is. Here
are two examples:
1. What does the interactive CPW rating mean and what does it do to the
number of people who can sign on? My answer: "I don't know." I see these
CPW ratings but I never get a "real world" sense of what they mean. If they
have a 520 express edition with 500 CPW and 30 interactive CPW, is there a
limit to number of folks who can sign on? Or, is it just that it gets "dog
slow" to the point that you don't *want* to sign on?
2. Is there an iSeries with NO interactive CPW? My answer: I think so,
but what *IS* it then? The iSeries is a killer server platform but it is
defined by the 5250 interface (OK, so I am hopelessly out of date) so with
NO interactive that means I can't sign on to a console? I have no command
line access? I am forced, then, to use the Operations Obfuscator to find my
way around? Yikes! A model 550 with no 5250 interface seems...well...alien
somehow.
So, if someone could give me the short course on the interactive workload of
the i5, I would appreciate it
Pete Helgren
Value Added Software,Inc.
801.581.1154 x202
