Re: The Future of the System i - the Domino theory

Hi:

When we first installed Lotus Notes we ran it on the same AS/400 that our 
batch/interactive jobs ran on. What a performance disaster. Turned out the 
BP that did the Notes install didn't bother to go into much detail about 
the effects of combining the two types of processing on the same machine. 
The surprise was that either would run at all, but it worked, almost 
adequately; we limped along like that for weeks before pulling the plug. 
Nothing ever actually halted, as I recall. Eventually, after a short stop 
on a "Bumblebee" AS/400, we arrived at running Domino on Windows.

All that was a long, long, time ago, and e-mail and other 
communications-type stuff was most of what we used Notes/Domino for then. 
I would expect that a correctly configured Series i running Domino and no 
batch/interactive could be a real screamer.

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/22/2007 09:01:15 AM:

This thread reminded me of a thought I had over the weekend. 

I seem to recall a discussion here on Midrange maybe a few weeks ago, 
where the topic was that the IFS was not suitable for large scale 
processing of IFS (ie non-traditional i5 data types (QSYS.LIB)), and 

that 

it was by its nature inherently slow when compared to other servers used 

for similar processes regarding text files and images and so forth. 

Doesn't the Domino theory dispel that concern or did I miss a 

significant 

aspect of the conversation? 

Regardless, the magnitude of users a Domino installation can support 

would 

to me be proof of concept that the i5 can indeed meet or beat the 
expectations of other platform and application vendors when processing 
stream files for hundreds of users simultaneously. 

Regards, Jerry

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