RE: Our New Machines

Congrats Paul and welcome to the club !

We moved from a 620 that was maxed out to an 810 LPAR and the 3581-H23 Tape
Unit 3 months ago and also saw UNBELIEVABLE run times:

Job                             620-2179                810-7409
Daily backup            4 hrs 6 mns             17 mns
End of day processing   2 hrs 30 mns    50 mns
End of Month            14 hrs 50 mns   2 hrs 5 mns

And of course as you note, users NEVER wait for jobs anymore. We are past
the "did my job REALLY run ?!" days now but man was THAT a change in those
first few days. I virtually NEVER see anything waiting to run now days and
that was the NORM before (moving stuff to other jobqs, etc.).

Life is good :-)

Chuck           


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of PaulMmn
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:28 PM
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Subject: Our New Machines

For those sitting on the fence about a system upgrade, GO FOR IT!

We completed our conversion from a pair of model 640s to a pair of 
825s the weekend after Thanksgiving.  Conversion was reasonably 
straight forward (although we wrote our own book).

The speed of the 6-year newer machines and disks is -very- 
impressive-- one job that used to take 20-24 hours to run ran in 
3-1/2 hours!  WHOOO-HOOOO!!

Users are complaining they can no longer submit a job and then go for 
coffee-- their jobs are finished before they can roll back their 
chairs!   (:

I'm afraid users will be submitting jobs more than once--  "It 
-always- takes 30 minutes to run.  It finished too soon.  Something 
must be wrong!"

Our next project (after the old machines are rolled out of the room) 
will be the cable removal party under the floor-- all those twinax, 
v.35, rs232, and other cables.  Maybe I can find the screwdriver 
blade I lost 6 or 7 years ago.  (:  If you have any need for v.35 or 
rs232 cables, let me know!

--Paul E Musselman