RE: WRKSYSACT(Is IBM trying to kill green screen on the AS/400?)

The other Point of View: (IMHO)

We had a 510/2143 rated at 77.7 total CPW.  We needed more due to green
screen growth.  We went to a 720 and purchased 120 Interactive CPW.  The
cost was about the same as going to a non-mixed mode box like a 620/2180
with a total CPW of 113.8 of a couple of years earlier.  Well we got a box
with a total CPW of 420 so We got a batch CPW of 300 for free.  Now to
convert that free batch to interactive is rather expensive.  We are now
moving to more of a C/S environment.  We have the need to image an
application and are currently working on separating our Green Screen
applications in to client and server programs.  The green screen will handle
only the screen I/O and all edits and file I/O will be moved to server
program.  Once that is done, we can GUI our screens to get the imaging we
need for the application.

BTW the 510 was a P30 and the 720 /w 120 interactive is a P20 so we saved a
bundle on software licenses.  Compiles sure fly and large batch job run so
fast we originally thought we had problems.  I feel that we got a lot more
than we paid for.

Software subscriptions, now that's a rip off.  (Guess IBM had to make it up
some where.)



Christopher K. Bipes     mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst   mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.         http://www.cross-check.com
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Rohnert Park CA  94928 Fax: 707 586-1884

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000


-----Original Message-----
From: Emilio Padilla Taylor [mailto:epadilla@amigo.net.gt]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 12:15 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: WRKSYSACT(Is IBM trying to kill green screen on the
AS/400?)


Sorry about my last analogy, I think is more like, you buy a Ferrari (if you
buy one of this ones I don't think you put it on a dirt road), they give you
free dirt tires and 4wd.  But you have to pay extra for the 5 speed
transaxle, the Pirelli tires, etc.

AS/400 world has been forever an 5250 interactive world, almost all the
applications you buy on the market are directed to that world.
But they charging you extra to keep up on that world.  Usually, if you need
an upgrade is because your interactive load is bigger(more screens, more
users, etc), not the other way around.  It hard to think that I will need an
upgrade because I had installed 50 new printers.

Emilio Padilla
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