Re: Tools [RE: Ready to scrap an AS/400]

[Frank Kolmann <FKolmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> 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.   

Seems to me that the parable of the workman and his tools is relevant.
Why try to break rocks with a nutcracker and then rant that the
nutcracker is breaking down.

Is not the AS400 a scalable machine. You need a bigger AS400 or
a server model.  Do you blame the hardware because the programs 
it runs dont work, does not really make sense. 

It reminds me of me when I was ranting that SQL is a pig.
It may be a pig just get a big enough pigpen. If you cant afford
the pigpen do you really need to do the job you are trying to do?

Frank Kolmann

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