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

 Do I understand this correctly?

1.It worked ok.
2.The third party vendor made an upgrade.
3.It doesn't work ok.

What does the third party vendor say?  What's caused the performance to
degrade?

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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------

From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 05:10:43 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Typical PC Guy question - and request for RFB contacts

another note for the masses before i am flooded -

If you wish to send me contact info, please put "JDCC ISERIES BID" in your
subject and send to me directly at mis@jdcc.edu, so as not to flood the
list.

the new box i am reviewing has 2 8.58G drives . . . .thought mirrored is
likely NOT an option as I am currently using 8G or so (just over 70%) on the
current qty3 4G drives . .. .on the RAID 5 setup . . i would hope I am
...but there are only 3 drives . . .so . if it works like PC RAID. then no
.... .

I can remove s/36, s/38 environments and the migration and migration
assistants . .not sure how much that will free up . .i'm told quite a bit .
.. . which might be enough for me to mirror the two drives . which would be
MUCH better than nothing at least.

I am looking forward to each and every response:).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Hardy" <mis@jdcc.edu>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: Typical PC Guy question - and request for RFB contacts


> yes . hehe . to its knees . . . .my mind is in top condition today as you

> can plainly see:).

>

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Justin Haase" <JHaase@jackhenry.com>

> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>

> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:42 PM

> Subject: RE: Typical PC Guy question - and request for RFB contacts

>

>

> > Hard to say unless you figure out where your contention is coming from

> > first. Generally, you should notice a lot better performance just from

> the

> > hop in model. However, the 17G DASD has me scared you'll be at only 1

> disk

> > arm (active - should be mirrored to another 17 Gb drive) while your old

> > system leads me to think 4x 4 Gb drives with RAID-5. So you may have an

> > increase in drive contention.

> >

> > However, generally speaking you should notice an increase in

performance.
> A

> > detailed analysis of contention would need to be done first to figure

out
> > for sure what kind of numbers you'd get.

> >

> > jch

> >

> > ps - did you mean "to it's knees"?

> > pps - be prepared for a barrage of e-mails.

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: Anthony Hardy [mailto:mis@jdcc.edu]

> > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:38 PM

> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com

> > Subject: Typical PC Guy question - and request for RFB contacts

> >

> >

> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

> > --

> > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]

> > 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

> > --

> >

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