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-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Hi there, BTW, please date yourselves! I am listening to JJ Cale (After Midnight, Magnolia, Crazy mama,, Call me the breeze, Cocaine etc, along with Boston's Cooling the engines!!!) Dave G, please forgive a bit of indulgence! Now that that is out of the way, let's resume more mortal discussions!!! We had a meeting with some SAP guys this morning. Wow, did the questions fly! Well, I went in search of information re SAP on the 400 (including the iSeries) on IBM's site. Google returned BETTER info than this search on their sites! We have customers that have been 'locked' into 400 technology for the past +- 8 years. They are on JDE, BPCS or one or another of the major ERP solutions. They WILL be moving to SAP (international directive). One of the factors is also hardware. They have invested in the AS/400 for the past n number of years.Their whole shop is 'tooled' for this (in terms of infrastructure, skills, etc.).Their peripheral skills are also suited to this (those who are au fait with accessing the DB/2 database via SQL. EXCEL, CA/400 data transfer, etc,) I can get hold of all the info I need re SAP on SUN, SAP on AIX, SAP on HP!!!! No way can I find anything on SAP (white papers, benchmarks, performance, 'Why should I go for it') on the AS/400/iSeries. Listed below are some items I found on the IBM sites. It appears that they are punting SAP on RS/6000 over SAP on the 400/iSeries! Is this a message? Does it appear that the 400/iSeries is subservient to the 'superior' capabilities of the RS/6000? I/we have been searching for ammunition that we can use to substantiate our trust in the 400 as the platform of choice. If there is anyone out there that has helped their customer to commit to SAp on the 400/iSeries, please divulge your information! I have seen IBM's benchmarks re the 400 somewhere on the 'net, but cannot appear to find it. What happened to SAP/R3 on the 400? Cheers. Jan. IV. DB2/SAP Technical News and Tips [Top] DB2 UDB announces impressive new benchmark results by Russ Stocker On October 13, IBM announced two new SAP ATO (Assemble-to-order) Standard Application Benchmark results that both extend its domination of the SAP benchmark arena and also demonstrate the capabilities of its exciting new server, the pSeries 680. Both results were performed using the latest release of IBM's DB2 UDB, increasingly acknowledged to be the default choice when it comes to choosing a database for use with SAP. The first result, performed on an IBM RS/6000® S80, achieved 6300 fully processed assembly orders per hour, setting a new standard for ATO performance using SAP R/3 release 4.6B. The second result was performed on a pSeries 680 server and sets a new record for 2-tier ATO results, 8570 fully processed assembly orders per hour, surpassing the previous world record, set by DB2 earlier this year. The two results were obtained using an identical software configuration, allowing a direct hardware comparison and highlighting the dramatically increased performance of the pSeries 680 server. The ATO benchmark is often regarded as the de facto standard of full function database capability in the SAP arena, consisting of fully integrated chains of business processing that provide a highly realistic simulation of large-scale integrated manufacturing operations. DB2 UDB V7.1 is the latest release of IBM's award-winning database software. Close cooperation between SAP and DB2 UDB development over several years has culminated in a product specially tuned and adapted to the rigorous requirements of the SAP ERP environment. The new pSeries 680 server marks a new landmark in high-end server performance. A 24 processor machine, the 680 couples increased clock speed (450 to 600 MHz) with an innovative hardware feature known as "Hardware Multithreading," which allows multiple process contexts to simultaneously share a processor and hence obtain better cache utilization rates and significantly better workload throughput than would otherwise be the case. The benchmarks measure the increased capability of the pSeries 680 as 36% ahead of its predecessor, the RS6000 S80. Taken as a whole, the results show that the partnership between SAP and IBM (DB2 UDB and pSeries) has produced the complete ERP solution that other industry players have sought. Benchmark details 1.In the first, record-breaking two-tier SAP** Standard Application Benchmark, the new pSeries 680 ran SAP R/3 Release 4.6B formble-to-order (ATO) and DB2* Universal Database V7.1 on the AIX® 4.3.3 operating system. The configuration included a 24-way pSeries* Model 680 with 32GB of main memory as the central server and 209GB of IBM Serial Storage Architecture disk. The achieved result was 8570 fully processed Assembly Orders per hour, and an average CPU utilization of 93 percent (where one Assembly Order represents one request to assemble pre-manufactured parts and assemblies to finished products according to an existing sales order). The SAP standard 4.6B application benchmark performed on September 27, 2000, by IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, was certified on October 13, 2000 with the following data: The SAP ATO (Assemble-to-order) standard 4.6 B application benchmark performed on September 27, 2000, by IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, is certiified with the following data: The hardware configuration was as follows: 1. Central Server: IBM pSeries Enterprise Server Model 680, 24-processors SMP, RS64-III, 600 MHz, 16 MB L2 cache, 32 GB main memory (*) Assembly Order: Request to assemble pre-manufactured parts and assemblies to finished products according to an existing sales order. 2.In the second result released, an RS/6000 S80 ran SAP R/3 Release 4.6B for Assemble-to-order (ATO) and DB2 Universal Database V7.1 on the AIX 4.3.3 operating system. The configuration included a 24-way RS/6000 S80 with 32 GB of main memory as the central server and 209GB of IBM Serial Storage Architecture disk. The achieved result was 6300 fully processed Assembly Orders per hour and an average CPU utilization of 92 percent (where one Assembly Order represents one request to assemble pre-manufactured parts and assemblies to finished products according to an existing sales order). The SAP standard 4.6 B application benchmark performed on October 11, 2000, by IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, was certified on October 13, 2000 with the following data: The SAP ATO (Assemble-to-order) standard 4.6 B application benchmark performed on October 11, 2000, by IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, is certified with the following data: The hardware configuration was as follows: 1 Central Server: IBM RS/6000 S80, 24-processors SMP, RS64-III, 450 MHz, 8 MB L2 cache, 32 GB main memory (*) Assembly Order: Request to assemble pre-manufactured parts and assemblies to finished products according to an existing sales order. Another article about this benchmark is available at http://houns54.clearlake.ibm.com/solutions/erp/erppub.nsf/detailcontacts/new_ibm_eserver_sets_sap_performance_record [Top] New white paper: "DB2 Universal Database and Total Cost of Ownership" A new, white paper (PDF file, 275K) by Yevich, Lawson and Associates (YL&A) examines advantages of DB2 cited by YL&A clients and by DB2 customers in production environments. The paper covers factors that contribute to total cost of ownership (TCO) in managing database technology, and the TCO comparing DB2 versus Oracle. You can download this White Paper at www.ylassoc.com/_downloads/DB2%20vs%20Oracle%20TCO.pdf. <ibm site> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/conslt/iseriestrans.htm Widespread acceptance of iSeries as an ERP and Domino platform: Today, the AS/400 is the most widely used ERP server in the world, and IBM has strong application support from ERP vendors such as J.D. Edwards, Geac Computer, Intentia International, MAPICS, SAP and Baan, to name just a few. The AS/400 is also the second most popular Domino server platform in the world (behind NT, but more widely deployed than all Unix servers combined). With the enhanced iSeries offering, IBM can continue to grow its leadership in these two areas with new accounts. </ibm site> BTW: Where I am at the southernmost point in Africa, we are far removed from the tragedy that befell America and, in so doing, the whole world. Here is a piece of poetry I came across on one af your sites: <poem> By Timothy Prickett Morgan I grieve. This is my city. These are my capitals. This is my country. This is my world. These are my children, my friends, my family. Thousands died without warning, hundreds died trying to save them. The holes in my skyline are not as big as the ones in my heart. What is mine is also yours, and theirs. We grieve for our cities, our capitals, our countries, and our world. We all grieve for dead friends and family. We are stunned by such appalling images, terribly real, by the smoke in our lungs, by the fighter jets overhead, by the eerie quiet of the skies soon after. We are on edge, and on the edge. What we do now will decide if we fall or if we stand. </poem> >From my quiet little corner of the globe: There was a quiet unit stationed at MurrayHill, that did service on the border. I was never in the unit, just did service there. Review their duties: http://home.istar.ca/~overlord/pathfinders.html Please note that Peter MacDonald should actually be Peter MacCleese!!! He was, and still is, a man amongst men! . http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Forest/1771/nomean.htm --
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