Re: New Hardware

["Clare Holtham" <Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

There is an alternative - Archiving your BPCS data. This will return
response times to what they were when you started out with BPCS, while still
allowing users to query the archived data. Our archiving software (sold by
Unbeaten Path in the US as 'Locksmith') is not about getting back disk space
(though it will do that too) but about improving performance dramatically so
that often a hardware upgrade is not needed. We can also provide database
tuning for your BPCS and bolt-on data which should give you an additional
40% or so improvement.
I remember visiting Planar in Finland when they started with BPCS (I was
with SSA then), but I don't have a record of any tuning. So perhaps it is
time to look at the cost effectiveness of this approach,

kind regards,

Clare

Clare Holtham
Director, Small Blue Ltd - Archiving for BPCS
Web: www.smallblue.co.uk
IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Professional
E-Mail: Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mobile: +44 (0)7960 665958
----- Original Message -----
From: <Tom_Page@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:39 PM
Subject: New Hardware


> I am running BPCS 6.101 mixed mode on a AS400 720 with  120 CPW for
> interactive.  As we continue to hang more and more bolt-ons to BPCS we are
> being forced to upgrade platforms.  We are looking at a AS400 810 with
1492
> CPW and no interactive limits.  This is quite expensive and our IT
director
> is not a real IBM fan and has asked me to find out more about the Windows
> 2000 server capabilities.  We have a 130 BPCS license  count.
> Has anyone had experience with the SSA product on the supposedly supported
> windows platform?  I am sceptical on how we could even size a Intel
> platform large enough to support our already overloaded system.
> - Tom
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