Re: The InfoWorld Scoop

[mcrump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Coming soon to your AS/400....system partitioning.  Hopefully it will meet
your needs Dean.  As usual, dates are subject but there should be an
announcement around the February time frame regarding logical partitioning.

The intent seems to be to minimize planned downtime for releases and allow
a company to test new releases and PTF's without requiring a seperate test
system.  Initially the implementation will be on those system with multiple
processors.  The cool thing is with the uni-processors.  Since the AS/400
is architected for 128 bits but IBM is committed to 64-bit processors
future uni's will actually contain two 64-bit processors.  Thereby, they
will be able to participate in this fun.  So it seems that existing uni's
may not be able to participate...but don't hold me to it, I'm just a
messenger.

The partitioning will be very easy to turn off and on and will allow the
customer to partition down to the IOP level.

Keep your eye out for more info....

Indeed, John's effort's do seem to be fruitful

espond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

There the heck have you folks at COMMON been?  Step out of CUDS for a
minute
and let us know what's going on ;-)!  Looks like John Carr's efforts have
been
fruitful!  Check out:

http://www.infoworld.com/scoop/sc?981006nw2

InfoWorld scoops midrange-l?  Unbelieveable!  One quote, "For each of the
partitioned chips, however, each of the users would have to run a separate
copy of the OS/400 operating system", sounds to me like what us high-
availability/large system people have been asking for _YEARS_ to help with
OS/400 upgrades -- if flowing the newly proven version of the OS to the
other
environments could occur without downtime.  Can any of you folks that are
_there_ and actually _understand_ the announcement provide any further
insight?

TIA!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com








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