Re: Ready to scrap an AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L


We too have been running Domino on the AS/400. It has been 100% successful
for months now. The response time isn't great but it continues to run day
after day without even a single IPL. When we were running Microsoft
Exchange reboots were a weekly occurrence. The only negative we have
regarding this IBM solution would be with Lotus Notes, it's slow, bloated,
and not user friendly.

Your Domino server may only need PTFs to get fixed. As with most 'bleeding
edge' products, PTFs need to be ordered and installed.

Ken Slaugh  (707) 795-1512 x118
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.
AS/400 Professional Administrator/MSE
Client Access Specialist
http://www.cm-inc.com/


                                                                                
                   
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Right now, my perception IS reality!  I'm about ready to scrap this piece
of junk AS/400 for something else.  It just plain can't do the job!  We
have a 170 (V4R4M0)that is running Domino(5.0.4) and a voice response
system
(VRS) as
the main applications along with the backend applications.  So there isn't
much to the system and it still can't handle it.  Domino locks up and
causes
problems for the VRS as the http server consumes more of the cpu %.  This
means
members who are calling in to the VRS are either getting kicked out of the
system halfway through their process, or they can't even get in.  It also
means
that anyone who is trying to pay for memberships get locked out.  I can
only
imagine what these people think, but I'm almost sure it's not good.  Since
many
of the membership include people who would be influential in the decisions
to
their own companies systems, I would ask, How is this for an advertisement
for
the AS/400? or How long can my business afford to be down with AS/400?

Ticked off with the AS/400.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:24 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: So if there is no Hardware specific Advertising then???????


I used to have a boss - different sort of fellow - anyways he used to quote
John Lennon.
"Perception is 99% of reality."



Nina,

You've hit the nail on the head here. It is not that the 400 *can't* do
these things. The problem is the *Perception* is that it can't do these
things.


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