Re: Request for assistance

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

I have never worked with a system on that scale, but a former employer did 
decide to go with dual systems for mutual backup purposes, and license fee 
reduction

Hardware does go down, not very often in IBM world, but when you need 24x7, 
there is an advantage to kicking developers or accountants or other 
department off of the less critical system & switching hardware with the 
applications that cannot afford to go down.

User-based & CPU-power licensing is sometimes brain dead in that we might 
only have 15% of our total work force using a particular application, but 
because we need a box powerful enough to support the other 85%, that inflates 
the software license fees.  This can be attacked, by keeping some 
applications on smaller boxes networked to other boxes for the data everyone 
needs.

Perhaps there is a need for some application that is compromising security 
... you can't partition the AS/400 & have different parts operating on 
different security rules.

If I was you, I would ask IBM partners who supply ERP & other complex 
software packages to the larger Fortune 500 types of companies for help 
making contacts.

>  From:    alucas@us.ibm.com
>  
>  I am working with an AS/400 customer that has a 530 for production and a
>  510 for development.  They have 2500 employees, approx $600 million in
>  sals; 3 plant locations that access the production box directly; 900 PCs
>  accessing the AS/400; 500-600 signons; 10 sales offices connected and 5
>  shipping depots.
>  
>  Question:  Are there companies of simliar size that are using a development
>  box totally separate from the main AS/400 production system?   If so why?
>  If not why?
>  
>  This customer would like to talk with customers on both sides of the
>  questions.
>  
>  If you have advice and someone we can talk with, please email me at
>  alucas@us.ibm.com.  They must decide to go to the 700 or 800 series with
>  one or two boxes ASAP.
>  
>  Thanks!!
>  
>  ************
>  Have a great day!
>  
>  
>  Anne C. Lucas, Program Manager
>  AS/400 Worldwide Education/Services Strategy

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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