iSeries mass offline storage (was Re: CD Burning software? )

Brad:

On Mon, 10 December 2001, Brad Jensen wrote:

> thomas@inorbit.com wrote:
> >
> > Now, I imagine few who create distribution CDs would use your product for 
>some time to come. There simply wouldn't be many sites to distribute them to, 
>i.e., very few sites could process such CDs. (That has nothing to do with 
>whether your product is any good; it simply takes time for market penetration.)
>
> I don't understand any site with a cd reader on their As/400 can
> read these cds, whether they use LODRUN or RSTLIB/RSTOBJ
>
> > And because of that, support for LODRUN seems irrelevant for the 
>foreseeable future.
>
> I'm not following you.

I probably lost track of the thread somewhere and missed a critical piece of 
info. I had gotten the impression that the major point of your device was to 
use common (PC) compression functions in combination with a CD recorder. This 
would allow large amounts of iSeries data to be stored on relatively few CDs.

If that were the case, then a RSTLIB or LODRUN that accessed that CD through my 
normal iSeries CD drive shouldn't work. Those commands won't be expecting .zip 
files or other PC file formats.

True, I could still "read" the compressed files, copying them into streamfiles 
and possibly decompressing them as well by using various APIs, commands, etc.; 
but that's not the same as simply executing LODRUN or RSTLIB.

So, where did I get lost in understanding?

I think the product is a great idea for mass offline storage. I just couldn't 
see how it would fit in with "normal" iSeries product distribution media, and 
therefore it didn't seem worth your time to worry about LODRUN compatibility 
for now. In the short run, just get the darn thing on the market!

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
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