RE: Will Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???

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Basit, did Microsoft "force" you to upgrade your 386 hardware when you
wanted to upgrade from Win 3.1x to Win95?  May I suppose that your 436
was resource-utlized fully at V4R3 but still had acceptable performance?
And, so, you upgrade to V4R5 and now the utilization is tipped over the
capacity for your 436?  Is there *any* OS upgrade out there (all
vendors) that does *not* take more resources to operate than the
previous levels?

"every hour"?  Hyperbole.  If you expect any OS to go without any fixes,
then you're living in Utopia.  So you don't like all the PTFs in a
brand-spanking new release?  Wait for it to stabilize.  Jeez, I've got a
V4R3 production system with *zero* PTFs applied, it's running base code.
When I first saw this, I was shocked, but the darned thing had been
running in production for over a year with ZERO problems.  Even with all
the PTFs coming out in V5 (and is this really any worse than for
previous releases?), I'd take OS/400 hands-down any day over any
MicroS*it product.  There's NO comparison!

If you truly need to be 24x7, then it doesn't matter *how* stable the OS
is, you're gonna need some kind of HA/mirrored solution.  Period.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Basit Khan [SMTP:Bkhan@medexassist.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 10:19 AM
> To:   'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: Will Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???
>
>
> I agree with you that we should plan - We do like to plan but the
> planning
> must not be forced by the vendor ...
>
> And your comment about the the product getting better after version
> upgrades
> is not correct (how come people who upgrade to v5r1 are always
> complaining
> and having problems besides IBM is releasing PTF almost every hour? -
> not to
> mention if you are 24/7 how would you keep up with PTF business) - and
> the
> version upgrade cost you $$$/time and you encounter new unknown
> problems.
>
> If we have to face the same "BS" from IBM that we have to from MS than
> I
> rest my case..
>
> Basit
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bale, Dan [mailto:Dan.Bale@handleman.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Will Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???
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> I'm sorry, come again?  You're running a *billion* dollar business on
> a
> 436 (a 9402 P05 or P10) and you're complaining about having to upgrade
> the hardware?!?!?  You're right, there is something definitely wrong
> with this picture.
>
> I mean, c'mon!  The OS itself is probably taking a big chunk of change
> on your DASD which is maxxed out at 50GB (nominal; half that if you're
> mirroring).
>
> Maybe in the future your company could plan for growth in your
> business
> *and* in the OS.  Unlike MicroSh*t products, OS/400 keeps getting
> better
> & better with each release.
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Basit Khan [SMTP:Bkhan@medexassist.com]
> > Sent:       Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:27 AM
> > To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> > Subject:    RE: Will Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???
> >
> > So, That means it is okay to say that every time we have a new
> version
> > of
> > operating system we upgrade our hardware - someone is talking "M
> S
> > "'s language here. I thought that is not the case with IBM's AS/400
> -
> > well I
> > guess I was wrong.
> >
> > We were running our billion dollar business on 436 without a single
> > problem
> > and just the version upgrade will make it obsolete box - I am sorry
> > but
> > there is something wrong with this picture.
> >
> >
> >
> > B Khan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:42 AM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: Will Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???
> >
> >
> >
> > So, as the other gentleman said, if you would have had Windows 3.1
> > running
> > on an older PC and upgraded it to Win NT or W2K then you could have
> > expected about the same results.  A 436 is a teeny weensie box.  IBM
> > has
> > said that the follow on to V5R1 will not run on some older boxes -
> > like a
> > 40S that we have.
> >
> > And if you have such a machine you are partially right.  Before you
> > decide
> > to upgrade OS, maybe you should think about upgrading hardware.  But
> > then
> > we have a P40 that is:
> > % CPU used . . . . . . . :        3.0
> > (Above was a snapshot from DSPSYSSTS at 9:38am our time)
> > So we are going to upgrade it to a P50.
> >
> > Rob Berendt
> >
> > ==================
> > A smart person learns from their mistakes,
> > but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes.
> >
> >
> >
> >                     Basit Khan
> >                     <Bkhan@medexassist.       To:
> > "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> >                     com>                      cc:
> >                     Sent by:                  Fax to:
> >                     midrange-l-admin@mi       Subject:     RE: Will
> > Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???
> >                     drange.com
> >
> >
> >                     10/09/2001 08:12 AM
> >                     Please respond to
> >                     midrange-l
> >
> >
> > I had no performance issues before the upgrade however after I
> > upgraded to
> > v4r5 it was a disaster - every time we have a single user running
> > query it
> > will basically stop processing every thing else. We ended up moving
> to
> > another box.
> > I will say if you have an older box and it has no performance issues
> > just
> > leave it alone - unless you have have a more robust box. We had 436
> > which
> > was an old box but it was performing very well with v4r3 - now that
> we
> > migrated to 170 and it is working fine with v4r5 ( but it has more
> > DASD and
> > memory is almost double than older box)
> >
> > B Khan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 5:50 PM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: Will Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???
> >
> > Basit,
> >
> > What are your measurements, before and after the upgrade?
> >
> > Rob Berendt
> >
> > ==================
> > A smart person learns from their mistakes,
> > but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes.
> >
> >
> >
> >                     Basit Khan
> >                     <Bkhan@medexassist.       To:
> > "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> >                     com>                      cc:
> >                     Sent by:                  Fax to:
> >                     midrange-l-admin@mi       Subject:     RE: Will
> > Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???
> >                     drange.com
> >
> >
> >                     10/08/2001 03:37 PM
> >                     Please respond to
> >                     midrange-l
> >
> > be ready for Slow performance...
> >
> > B Khan
>