Re: Will Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance??? -- MIDRANGE-L

> So, That means it is okay to say that every time we have a new version of
> operating system we upgrade our hardware ......
If you look at the history of EVERY computing system, upgrades of OS
features
have always required more memory, more disk, & more processor speed. Same
for pc (windoze & dos), unix, mac, mainframe, s34, s36, s38 & os/400. Why
the shock?
When I upgraded my B10 to a D10 in '90 or 91 - it took more memory & disk.
No big shock.
Also, as I pointed out in a very early post on this, your query problem may
have
been due to a missing ptf (which ibm documented in the psp since Oct 2000 as
a
definite fix to query performance).
IBM provides the tools to determine what you need "before" the upgrade, so
you
can make an informed decision.
Jim Franz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Basit Khan" <Bkhan@medexassist.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:26 AM
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???
>
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>
> 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.
>
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>                     Basit Khan
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> 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???
>
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>
> 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
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> "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
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>                     10/08/2001 03:37 PM
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>                     midrange-l
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> be ready for Slow performance...
>
> B Khan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Franz [mailto:franz400@triad.rr.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 1:35 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Will Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???
>
>
> Just did two upgrades this weekend.
> model 600 (smallest processor) V4R3 w/128 meg memory 12 gig disk
> model S10 2119 V4R4 w/256memory 32 gig disk
>
> model 600 took forever - about 16 hours total including cum ptf
> model S10 was done in 9 including cum.
> no performance degradation so far (model 600 already was slow for users)
> I would recommend more memory for your box.
> Also - for the 600, just OS, RPG, Dev Tools, took addtl 800 meg disk.
> be sure to read the Preventive Service Plan (PSP) for this upgrade.
> (not listed in release instructions)at 4.3, your machine needs to have ptf
> MF25727 (product 5769999) already installed (or a supersede)
> we also loaded SF99105 Group PTF for Database
> SF99096 Hiper ptf's after v4r5 cum ptf
> hth
> jim franz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barb Nash" <Barb.Nash@phbcorp.com>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 1:31 PM
> Subject: Will Upgrading to V4R5 impact performance???
>
>
> > Hello,
> >     I am planning on upgrading our 9402 (model 400, feature 2131)from
> V4R3
> > to V4R5 in the near future. We have 194MB of RAM and 31GB, 43% is used.
> We
> > are running MAPICS, with approximately 50 users, both green screen and
> > client access.
> >       From what I have been reading on various web sites, postings... is
> > that when we upgrade to V4R5 there may be diminished performance. I have
> > spoken with IBM and they assure me that we will be OK, however our CE
> tends
> > to differ. I was wondering if anyone with our configuration has done
such
> an
> > upgrade and what impact it has had.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Barb
> >
> >
> >
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