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

As aluded to in other missives...

Your machine was probably not sized correctly.  The 170 can _possibly_
handle domino, but that is all. You can't run additional functions. The
processor resource is just not there in a 170.

I have a client that needed to install domino on an NT platform to comply
with some processing dictates. I can tell you that domino will lock up NT
just a fast and easy as any other machine.

Funny thing is, this company was taken over by another. That other company
insists on e-mail going through their servers. Those e-mail servers have
been @*$#&^ up for the last 2 weeks. The 400, on the other hand, is happily
churning and delivering e-mail without so much as a 5 minute outage during
the last 4 months, in addition to its other loads. It is the only thing (the
400) right now that prevents every single one of their clients from walking
away from them.

So, yes, it is perception. The machine is too small for the workload and you
therefore perceive that the 400 can't handle it. But what you need to
remember that the architecture currently scales over three orders of
magnitude.

I perceive that your problem is with your marketing rep or whomever sold you
the machine, or whomever told you that you could successfully run domino on
a 170.

===========================================================
R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"Those who would give up essential Liberty,
  to purchase a little temporary Safety,
  deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

     - The Papers of Ben Franklin

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Wesloskie <dwesloskie@altatennis.org>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:41 PM
Subject: Ready to scrap an AS/400


>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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