Re: Our New Machines

That was our biggest problem.  Users resubmitting jobs because they would 
submit, them and look for them with WRKACTJOB or some such thing and not 
find them.  We trained them to look for the output.  We actually had to 
document this in our "We are upgrading " announcement, (as we did this 
division-by-division).

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
12/02/2003 08:27 PM
Please respond to
Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


To
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
cc

Fax to

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
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
_______________________________________________
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing 
list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.