RE: I need your vote on this...

[Joe Giusto <JGiusto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are the programs accessing DDM files or Physicals that get used to drive
changes thru opticonnect.  What if you journaled the files on the source
machine.

Joe Giusto II
Patuxent Publishing Company
mailto:jgiusto@patuxent.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Larkin [SMTP:blarkin@wt.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 1998 1:46 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      I need your vote on this...
> 
> This question concerns Opti-Connect, but your opinion would be
> appreciated, even if you are not using it.
> 
> Opticonnect is the mechanism one of my clients uses to cluster several
> AS/400s. Data resides on machine A. Programs, Display Files, other
> small
> objects on Machine B, Machine C Mirrors data from A, and is used as a
> query machine.
> 
> Here is the baackground on the question. A program on Machine A
> writes/updates/deletes a record on Machine B. This is done thru
> Opti-Connect using it's smoke and mirrors. Later, we look in the
> journals on Machine B, and find the record we just
> wrote/updated/deleted. When we look to see which program did the file
> I/O, we get the name of the IBM program that wrote the record for
> OptiConnect, not the name of our application program.
> 
> My question......
>   Should the Journal contain my applications name, or the IBM programs
> name?
> 
> We use these journals for diagnostics, among other things. Since we
> have
> files being updated by multiple applications, on multiple machines,
> seeing the Application Program's name, instead of the IBM program,
> would
> be helpful.
> 
> Any opinions?
> 
> TIA,
> Bob
> blarkin@wt.net << File: Card for Bob Larkin >> 
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