Re: Question of efficiency

[Vernon Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth

At 12:48 PM 6/23/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>Which configuration model do you think is more efficient?
>
>1.) 150-200 users connecting to an AS/400 via Rumba Telnet 5250 clients
>by initiating 
>       several separate Rumba sessions from their PC, one for each job.
>
>2.) 150-200 users connecting to an AS/400 via Rumba Telnet 5250 clients
>by initiating 
>       1 or 2 telnet sessions and using group jobs to start and work
>with additional jobs.
>
>Kenneth
>
>--
>********************************
>        Kenneth E. Graap

Isee 2 kinds of efficiency in this question. The one I think in view is
machine, but there is also human efficiency. I personally much prefer
separate simultaneously running sessions to group or sysreq jobs. I can
have more things going on at once, I can actually see both, etc. It's an
extension of multiple session dumb terminals.

I agree with Leonid, that the second scenario would take up fewer resouces
on the machine. But productivity definitely includes the human element, so
maybe we need to look at having enough horsepower to support the way we work.

Just some thoughts.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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