Re: BPCS 6.1mm performance and the AS/400

["Genyphyr Novak" <novakg@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sandy,

Simply comparing what other companies have to what you have is often not
enough, as you are not taking into account the myriad of different ways to
use and set up BPCS, and the varied performance requirements that each mode
of BPCS (C/S or MM), which applications you use most heavily and business
needs set up requires. The BPCS sizing guide (developed by SSA and IBM)
takes all of this into account.

Random sampling of other system processers used by other companies on a
mailing list is likely not the best way to research this topic, as
performance is very complex and site/useage-specific. If you are asking
about this here, just to get a few 'warm fuzzies' to know you are not way
off-base about your pending decision, and not as a primary research tool,
then that would be a wise approach to take.

It is not surprising that System/36 BPCS ran fine on a smaller box and
6.1.00 does not, as they are extremely different releases. I am sure you
have looked at all the many many Net Change documents between those
releases. Quite a few new features have been added as well as many new
products and files (and thus the additional processor overhead to keep track
of all the new functionality).

Thanks

Genyphyr Novak
SSA

-----Original Message-----
From: Forwiw@aol.com <Forwiw@aol.com>
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: BPCS 6.1mm performance and the AS/400


>
>    We had an OLD version of BPCS 4.4B running as a System/36 guest on
>    our AS/400.  We had no problem with the older version,  it's just
>    when we went to BPCS 6.1 mm we noticed the performance hit.
>
>    What model AS/400 do you have?
>
>    Thanks for responding.
>    Sandy
>
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