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I have had some interesting and painful discussions with IBM over the past week regarding Vista and iSeries Access. Specifically regarding V5R1, V5R2. IBM has given me a couple of websites I'd be glad to share with anyone along with the notes on this one customer situation....if it will help. Just let me know! .....Anne ************************ Have a blessed day! Anne Lucas Customer Account Executive, Genisys Group, Inc. 205-823-4831 Office, 205-746-6850 Mobile 615-250-4889 efax email: alucas@xxxxxxxxxxx AOL Instant Message: So Anne Lucas www.teamggi.com -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces+alucas=teamggi.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces+alucas=teamggi.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 10:27 AM To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 6, Issue 386 Send MIDRANGE-L mailing list submissions to midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx You can reach the person managing the list at midrange-l-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxx When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of MIDRANGE-L digest..." *** NOTE: When replying to this digest message, PLEASE remove all text unrelated to your reply and change the subject line so it is meaningful. Today's Topics: 1. DBAs and iSeries (was: Creating dds source from SQL Tables) (PaulMmn) 2. Re: Experiences with VISTA (Mark Allen) 3. RE: Experiences with VISTA (Lukas Beeler) 4. Re: DBAs and iSeries (was: Creating dds source from SQL Tables) (Michael Ryan) 5. Re: Linux in a sub-system? (Al Barsa) 6. Re: V5R3-V5R4 Updated Problem (Al Barsa) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- message: 1 date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:36:56 -0500 from: PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> subject: DBAs and iSeries (was: Creating dds source from SQL Tables) <vent> I should hope we're non-standard! I've been going around and around with a software vendor that keeps insisting that I need to tell our DBA to run the "Database Optimization Tool" they provide-- it uses the RUNSTATS process to rebuild file indices, gather statistics, and otherwise clean up the database. I keep telling them that the iSeries doesn't -have- a RUNSTATS command, it doesn't -need- a RUNSTATS command, and that I -am- the DBA. Well, I'm the closest thing to a DBA we have on the iSeries machines. Now as far as I can determine, RUNSTATS does exist for DB2 on -other- platforms... but all we do on the iSeries is a RGZPFM from time to time. But try and convince non-iSeries people that we have a better way... *sigh* </vent> --Paul E Musselman PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Loyd wrote (in part): Unlike Oracle and SQL server, I do not need to gather statistics, rebuild existing indexes, manage table spaces, or have headaches when updating server hardware. Does this make DB2 on our beloved box a non-standard database?
------------------------------ message: 2 date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:52:05 -0500 from: "Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx> subject: Re: Experiences with VISTA Windows XP and Office 2003 are the last MS products that will be put on any computer of mine, I tracked my time yesterday at work (slow day) and I lost approx 1 hr total of "productive" time due to: 1. The lovely I am MS Word I will reformat you document as you type cause I know all including what you want to do. 2. Window focus changes as your typing 3. 3 reboots/lockups 4. Install updates (AGAIN!!!!!) Sorry MS is total BS, why does anyone even consider it a multi tasking OS, its still a single user OS with a windows front end, so it "looks" like its doing more than 1 thing On 2/16/07, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I rest my case. :-)) Paul Nelson Cell 708-670-6978 Office 708-425-4198 nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Franz Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:18 PM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: Experiences with VISTA The December svc pack for latest iSeries Access has the Vista support. IBM has an apar on it in the iSeries Access home page. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/ btw - i went to the MS Roadshow - 4 hours - we averaged 1 crash/reboot
per hour for what they were trying to demo. But did get a cd good for free download of Office 2007. jim franz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 7:45 PM Subject: RE: Experiences with VISTAHave you got a 5.4 box? You can reach inside and upgrade your PC from there: /QIBM/ProdData/CA400/Express/Install/Image/setup.exe You will have a version with the service packs applied up to where your System i machine is at in terms of PTF's. Good luck. I'm going to wait a year for a Vista machine Paul Nelson Cell 708-670-6978 Office 708-425-4198 nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of derhamj Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:35 PM To: MidRange-L Subject: Experiences with VISTA Got a new laptop yesterday with Vista and Office 2007. Has loaded all my business applications and WDSC just fine but it did not like iSeries Access V5R2. Is there a new download available or does anyone know of any other solutions to this problem. Just feel I absolutely need iSeries Access. Jack Derham Direct Systems, Inc -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.-- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing
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------------------------------ message: 3 date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:54:21 +0100 from: "Lukas Beeler" <l.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxx> subject: RE: Experiences with VISTA If your windows machines crashes three times during a day, then the problem is most likely NOT windows. a) Faulty Hardware (most likely your RAM, memtest86) b) Virus/Spyware (check your security strategy) Security Fixes once per month isn't that bad. And Microsoft Word is a tool you will need to learn how to use it. You can't use it the same way as an 8 year old Lotus Office Suite, or like OfficeVision/400. You will need to learn on how to use such a tool to your advantage. Save for some special circumstances, there's no real alternative to Windows as a Desktop, and even Server OS for managing your Desktops. I suggest you to learn to work with this platform, and learn to workaround all those quirks. Every platform has it's fair share of problems. i5/OS can't change the link speed of an ethernet card while the interface is up, it can't do full saves while the system is operating, and so on. Just learn to deal with it. -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Allen Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 8:52 AM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: Experiences with VISTA Windows XP and Office 2003 are the last MS products that will be put on any computer of mine, I tracked my time yesterday at work (slow day) and I lost approx 1 hr total of "productive" time due to: 1. The lovely I am MS Word I will reformat you document as you type cause I know all including what you want to do. 2. Window focus changes as your typing 3. 3 reboots/lockups 4. Install updates (AGAIN!!!!!) Sorry MS is total BS, why does anyone even consider it a multi tasking OS, its still a single user OS with a windows front end, so it "looks" like its doing more than 1 thing On 2/16/07, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I rest my case. :-)) Paul Nelson Cell 708-670-6978 Office 708-425-4198 nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Franz Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:18 PM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: Experiences with VISTA The December svc pack for latest iSeries Access has the Vista support. IBM has an apar on it in the iSeries Access home page. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/ btw - i went to the MS Roadshow - 4 hours - we averaged 1 crash/reboot
per
hour for what they were trying to demo. But did get a cd good for free
download of Office 2007. jim franz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 7:45 PM Subject: RE: Experiences with VISTAHave you got a 5.4 box? You can reach inside and upgrade your PC
from
there: /QIBM/ProdData/CA400/Express/Install/Image/setup.exe You will have a version with the service packs applied up to where
your
System i machine is at in terms of PTF's. Good luck. I'm going to
wait a
year for a Vista machine Paul Nelson Cell 708-670-6978 Office 708-425-4198 nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of derhamj Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:35 PM To: MidRange-L Subject: Experiences with VISTA Got a new laptop yesterday with Vista and Office 2007. Has loaded
all my
business applications and WDSC just fine but it did not like iSeries
Access V5R2. Is there a new download available or does anyone know of any
other
solutions to this problem. Just feel I absolutely need iSeries
Access.
Jack Derham Direct Systems, Inc -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L)
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-- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. ------------------------------ message: 4 date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:37:05 -0500 from: "Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> subject: Re: DBAs and iSeries (was: Creating dds source from SQL Tables) runstats and reorg sure do exist on our Windows UDB implementation that's part of our Websphere Commerce System than runs on Windows. Two-tiered, with Apache, WAS and WCS on one system, and UDB on a different system. And when everything is right - it flies. But if you don't run runstats and reorg on a regular basis, database access will become so slow that it's not functional. Taking minutes for a simple select. On 2/16/07, PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<vent> I should hope we're non-standard! I've been going around and around with a software vendor that keeps insisting that I need to tell our DBA to run the "Database Optimization Tool" they provide-- it uses the RUNSTATS process to rebuild file indices, gather statistics, and otherwise clean up the database. I keep telling them that the iSeries doesn't -have- a RUNSTATS command, it doesn't -need- a RUNSTATS command, and that I -am- the DBA. Well, I'm the closest thing to a DBA we have on the iSeries machines. Now as far as I can determine, RUNSTATS does exist for DB2 on -other- platforms... but all we do on the iSeries is a RGZPFM from time to time. But try and convince non-iSeries people that we have a better way... *sigh* </vent> --Paul E Musselman PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxLoyd wrote (in part): Unlike Oracle and SQL server, I do not need to gather statistics, rebuild existing indexes, manage table spaces, or have headaches when updating server hardware. Does this make DB2 on our beloved box a non-standard database?-- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing
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------------------------------ message: 5 date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:44:32 -0500 from: Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> subject: Re: Linux in a sub-system? Yes, it's possible. I think it's always been around. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z" e gads Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor! 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com http://www.as400connection.com "Michael Rosinger" <mrosinger@cciws. To com> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: cc midrange-l-bounce s@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject Linux in a sub-system? 02/16/2007 06:22 AM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midra nge.com> List, I was told yesterday by an IBM business partner that it is possible to run Linux in a sub-system in a stand-alone system, not requiring a separate LPAR. Is this accurate? If so, when was this available? -- Regards, Michael Rosinger Systems Programmer / DBA Computer Credit, Inc. 640 West Fourth Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101 336-761-1524 m rosinger at cciws dot com -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. ------------------------------ message: 6 date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:47:15 -0500 from: Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> subject: Re: V5R3-V5R4 Updated Problem Only the power scheduler is involved. These are totally different schedulers, despite the confusion. The power scheduler starts you from a powered down state, whereas the job scheduler requires the system to be running. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z" e gads Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor! 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com http://www.as400connection.com fbocch2595@xxxxxx m Sent by: To midrange-l-bounce midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx s@xxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject 02/16/2007 09:19 Re: V5R3-V5R4 Updated Problem AM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midra nge.com> So, anyone upgrading from V5R3 should save QDFTJOBSCD b4 the upgrade and, if necessary, restore it to the system at V5R4? -----Original Message----- From: spanner@xxxxxxxxxx To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 2:24 PM Subject: Re: V5R3-V5R4 Updated Problem Hi John I've restored V5R2 job schedule entries to a V5R4 machine with no problem so my advice would be that you should be OK. You can always save the V5R4 *JOBSCD object beforehand anyway. Regards Evan Harris At 05:20 a.m. 15/02/2007, you wrote:
Hello, We did an R3-R4 upgrade over the weekend, and I just now realized that
all
of our Job Schedule Entries are gone! Fortunately, we have a backup,
but it
is at V5R3. Does anyone know if it's safe to restore R3 job schedule
entries
onto R4? Regards, John Taylor --
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