Re: [AS/400 Sizing]

["Gary Ackland" <ackland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Becareful on the IBM guarantee, IBM's promise is on NEW systems only, not on
upgrades.

AS/400 sizing is accomplished by completing the SSA sizing questionnaire,
and then working with one of the certified SSA Hardware partners.  We are
constantly working with customers, helping them find the best solution to
meet their system performance needs.  This is what we do.

How accurate is the questionnaire? Right now its pretty good.  Certainly the
AS/400 system size that the BPCS software needs is larger than the past, but
the system sizes for any other ERP solution in the marketplace is just as
large or bigger.  The other reason I think the questionnaire is doing a good
job is the lack "noise" on this issue.  For those customers who have
upgraded their systems in the past 18 months, I can't think of any customer
having an issue with their AS/400 system's performance, which either a BMR
or PTF has been able to fix.


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Robins <BillZBubb@netscape.net>
To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [AS/400 Sizing]


> Kusman Lim <KUSMAN@takeda-id.com> wrote:
>
> >> Sizing is the good way to know what size of server you need. If we do
> sizing process we need to fill some questionnaire. Bob is right "How
> accurate that BPCS sizer ?".
> <<
>
> Has everyone forgotten IBM's promise to upgrade for free any machine that
is
> pre-loaded with one of their e-solutions and then doesn't perform
> satisfactorily?  It seems to me that if you are planning to upgrade, you
> "should" be able to get the same kind of guarantee.  If they can do it for
a
> brand new installation, why not an existing?  The sizing logic would be
the
> same.
>
> Bill
>
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