RE: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

jt:

Every once in a while, you get it extremely right.

On Fri, 09 November 2001, "jt" wrote:

> So I mean no offense, but it can't help but come across that way, I
> guess...:  I think that explains why the idea of a 15-user system needing
> 1000CPW seems pretty doggone funny, to some of us "old dogs".

I can't agree more. A few years back, we were running a model 300. Supporting a 
couple hundred users for general OV/400 stuff, and a number of major 
applications.

First was a decent sized ImagePlus/400 application that used OS/2 workstations 
for direct image handling and WAF/400 for the server-side management. This was 
paired (linked via WAF APIs) to a database application that was a horrendous 
mess. Never could get decent management support to rewrite it.

There were also a half-dozen or so good sized SQL COBOL applications. These 
were interesting in that they were direct emulations of applications previously 
created within the Wang VS PACE environment. And I mean these all looked and 
acted just like they used to on the Wang. (The IS group begged and pleaded to 
do a real conversion, but important management bent to user requests that there 
be zero retraining. Sheesh.)

An interesting side effect was that a couple very useful user tools were 
created to make this work. One, which I think about recreating from time to 
time, was a slick 'query by example'. It far out-classed Query/400 in utility.

Anyway, I judged basic response time just a bit sluggish compared to the Wang 
which meant user complaints were minimal. Hardly surprising given the work that 
was being done under the covers to emulate PACE not to mention the database 
structures which were designed to meet federal guidelines, but easily 
acceptable.

Had these applications actually been designed to AS/400 standards, performance 
would have far surpassed the Wang environment.

In any case, CPW today blows the model 300 away. My own two model 400s can each 
do more. It can be hard to sympathize some times.

Tom Liotta

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Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
Phone  253-872-7788
Fax  253-872-7904
http://www.400Security.com


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