Re: A V6 Success Story! (Sorta')

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Congratulations Dean !

NOW you can take a DEEP BREATH, eh ?

It's nice to hear this, ESPECIALLY from someone I know and TRUST !!!!!

Not of course that SSA would mislead or anything ;-)

Chuck

DAsmussen wrote:

> Hey Folks!
>
> After nearly a year of effort, we _finally_ went live with 6.0.02 from 5.1.01
> over the Memorial Day Weekend!  Rather appropriate, given that we all _feel_
> somewhat like war veterans after the effort.  We wrote "post conversion"
> programs to handle most of the stuff that SSA screws up in the conversion
> (like opening back up most of our closed shop orders, not converting user
> menus, not assigning the SSA group to existing user profiles, not changing the
> newly AS/Setized program names in ZMO and ZX3, and validating fields such as
> "Group Tech Code" in IIM that weren't previously validated).  Went pretty
> smooth (_NO_ thanks to SSA), and our CIM Replacement programs using INV500B1
> and a batch version of INV500D2 (for validation prior to invoking INV500B1)
> worked pretty well.  Between "taking ownership" of some SSA programs to
> correct their _LOUSY_ SQL, and creating some "performance" logicals for SQL
> based upon the PRTSQLINF command, the performance hasn't been too bad --
> 'course we have a 530 that was only 50% utilized prior to conversion.  6.0
> _can_ work, just takes a _lot_ of effort...
>
> Regards!
>
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>
> "If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the sign of an
> empty desk?" -- Anonymous
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