Re: Typical PC Guy question - and request for RFB contacts

The CPW will not get you much if you are doing interactive work (25
compared to 22.7). Batch work will be quite a bit better.
The increase in memory will help, probably.
Will this include a newer version of OS/400? That could help - YMMV.
Have you been able to collect performance data and get it analyzed - or do
you have Perf Tools? That'd tell you where your contention is. Esp. if you
have the capacity modeling software BEST1 (part of Perf Tools).

It's important to identify the bottlenecks. It's possible to throw all
kinds of hardware at a performance problem and have little benefit.

HTH

Vern

At 03:38 PM 12/4/2002 -0600, you wrote:

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I, having very little AS400/iseries experience am in charge of our current
AS400.  I understand fully the impact in performance when I talk in
Megahertz, RAM, etc. and have learned a decent amount of IBM lingo, DASD,
main memory, CPW, etc.

My question is this .  .our third pary vendor recently made a needed
change to our administrative software which has our current system at its
needs.  We are a higher ed. institution and we have students waiting 3-4
minutes for fees to process.

Our current machine is a model 600-2129 , 22.7 SHARED CPW, 192 main mem.
and 12G DASD.

I am looking at a refurb 170-2291, 115/25 CPW, 512 main mem and 17G DASD.

Disk space is not an issue for me . .the ONLY thing this box is used for
is this ONE third party app (no web, mail, storage, etc).  I have been
told that this 170 config will push me to the top of the P05 group (don't
want to go P10 for budgetary reasons).

My questions are this:

1. What kind of performance increase am I looking at generically.  I know
you can't give me exact figures, but in generic terms, are we talking
about moving from a 386 to a pentium here?  maybe better?  I have some
performance figures on this box . .but i'm really not interested in
specifics . .just trying to get an overall feel for CPW ratings and the
difference they make.

2. I need to bid out this project (the hardware, license transfer and data
move).  If you handle this type of thing, please send me your contact
information, including name, address, phone, fax and email.

Sincerely,

Anthony Hardy
Director of MIS/Enrollment Management
Jefferson Davis Community College
(251) 809-1531