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Barb, You're bringing back memories. While, in itself, it doesn't justify the expense, our payroll processing used to take 45 minutes to 1 hour before our upgrade and just 5 minutes after the upgrade! Also, our COM users went from hating the system to loving it all because of response time. Ed Chabot Marlin Firearms Co. -----Original Message----- From: mapics-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:mapics-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Barb Nash Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 9:37 AM To: mapics-l@midrange.com Subject: RE: AS/400 Upgrade charges Hi Pete, We are release 5.5. History files are archived and deleted at the beginning of each year. Reorgs, as well as RCLSTG and RCLSPLSTG are done quarterly. Also we do not have AP. We have added DASD and maxed out the memory. Right now performance is not that bad unless we have a lot of power users on at once.... Monday's and Tuesday's are bad due to payroll processing, and of course right before month end when everyone is trying to get finished up for the month. My fear is when we add these additional Non-MAPICS files and applications..... I don't feel I should be charged a chunk of change if my MAPICS is going to remain the same and am trying to avoid this. Otherwise, it will be years before we can upgrade our hardware. Thanks for the suggestions! Barb -----Original Message----- From: Pete Olshavsky@htol [mailto:peteo@htol.net] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 9:22 AM To: mapics-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: AS/400 Upgrade charges Hello Barb, This would only be a Band-Aid. What release of Mapics are you on? But have you tried to archive some of your history files. Some of these can get very large. And have you done the Mapics reorg lately. When records get deleted they still take up space in the files. This also could buy you some DASD. Also a rclsplstg to clean up deleted spool files. Also in A/P if you to do check reconciliation you need to do a purge to move from the opnpay files to the history files. Then archive to tape. Pete Olshavsky Ind Mapics Analyst/Systems Analyst ----- Original Message ----- From: Barb Nash <Barb.Nash@phbcorp.com> To: <mapics-l@midrange.com> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:21 PM Subject: AS/400 Upgrade charges Hi all, I apologize if I am revisiting an old topic, but have searched through the archives and did not find a definite answer. In the near future we are looking to put several non-MAPICS applications/files on our AS/400. It is a 9402-400, 2131, in the P10 processor group, CPW 20.6, memory and DASD maxed out (don't laugh). Current response time during prime working hours, running MAPICS only, is fair to poor. I'm afraid that adding these additional systems is going to bring it to its knees. That being said, and economic conditions being the way they are, we need to avoid the hefty MAPICS upgrade charges if we want a new box (we are still on tiered pricing). Are these upgrade charges processor group based? Is it possible to stay in the P10 group, avoid the charges and get something with more oomph? Or better yet, move to the P05 group and lower our incredibly high ALF's and still increase our CPW? There are no plans to add or change any our MAPICS applications. Why should have to pay software charges to upgrade our hardware? Thanks in advance! Barb Nash PHB, Inc. Fairview, PA (814) 474-1552 ext. 225 Barb.nash@phbcorp.com _______________________________________________ This is the MAPICS ERP System Discussion (MAPICS-L) mailing list To post a message email: MAPICS-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/mapics-l or email: MAPICS-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/mapics-l. _______________________________________________ This is the MAPICS ERP System Discussion (MAPICS-L) mailing list To post a message email: MAPICS-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/mapics-l or email: MAPICS-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/mapics-l. _______________________________________________ This is the MAPICS ERP System Discussion (MAPICS-L) mailing list To post a message email: MAPICS-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/mapics-l or email: MAPICS-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/mapics-l.
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