Re: I5 systems in production

You be lucky.  520 rack mount with HMC is customer install.........You get a 
0551 rack with the 520 mounted in it.  Everything else is in boxes and you have 
the install it, including the HMC and any IXA server(s) in the config.  You get 
boxes and boxes of stuff.  

If i5 is to play big in the SMB market, it really makes you wonder why they did 
that.  After all, the iSeries reputation is one of the best for getting up and 
going in a short time with little or no technical staff.  They really blew 
their foot off with that one.........

Regards,

Mike Shaw

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> Actually, it was not bad, CE did all the work, downtime was about an hour. 
> They had a manufacture put a bad component on only certain serial numbered 
> controllers. We just happened to see the note in Iseries news and downloaded 
> the 
> PTF to check. IBM did call us about it, they new which machines had the bad 
> cards. 
> 
> As far as the HMC, its a rack mount Intel server which controls the AS400's 
> partitions instead of having a controlling partition in the system. It nice 
> once you get use to it, they still need a to do a lot of work on it, were 
> waiting for Al's tools to come out for it for the automatic scheduling. 
> 
> Steve 
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