Re: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

Which is again my point.  Too many people get caught up in "application A by
vendor A does well on OS A, but app B from vendor B running on OS B that
does the same thing runs liek crap."

People compare apples and oranges too often.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@taylorcorp.com>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...


> You can do that in the Unix world too. That is what cron jobs are for. I
> don't know any more detail than that though.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 8:35 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...
>
>
> > From: Adam Lang
> >
> > Well, that batch problem is something we have on the AS/400 too.  When
we
> > run our end of day processing, no one can be logged into the
> > system because if any records are open the cycle won't run.
>
> Batch jobs colliding with online users is just a fact of data processing
> life.  The point is that on the AS/400, you can schedule jobs to be run
> unattended when nobody is on the machine.
>
>
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