RE: SAP

[Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At a former place of employment ... in 1999 ... a project was started to
migrate off the non-2K compliant version of BPICS and onto SAP.  The AS/400
version of the SAP-server was fairly new, full of bugs, there were only a
very few other users of our version, and performance was dreadful. 

This was the only time I have ever advised to dump an AS/400 - dumping SAP
was NOT an option.  Within six weeks Compaq servers were installed and
running the SAP instances very effectively.

We had tried just about everything else before this action.  The SAP
database, which was journalled, had created over 100 access paths over some
files - a nightmare.  This was a few years ago, so I hope things have
improved - I quite liked the application side of things.

Jeff Bull

-----Original Message-----
From: Debbie Helms [mailto:DHelms@Lance.com]
Sent: 06 January 2003 15:28
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: SAP


Is anyone running SAP native on an iSeries?   Did you compare the server vs.
native SAP on an iSeries?  Is anyone running SAP at all?   Any information
will be helpful.  The plan is to run SAP on an INTEL server and remove the
iSeries.  I'm not making the decision and I know the best decision will be
made...I just need information. 
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