Re: The i5 an interactive workloads -- MIDRANGE-L

I can tell you, based on experience, that one BPCS V6 user needs about 5
CPW, so a system with 30 CPW would not give you many users concurrently.
Programmers typically need an amount equal to two users! For a less complex
transaction workload 1 user per CPW might be possible (e.g. pure RPG and no
SQL).
If your system is one of those with interactive feature cards, then CFINTxx
(where xx is the number of the processor) kicks in when the interactive
'threshold' is exceeded, and 'eats' CPU. I believe that those later models
with no interactive (standard edition v. enterprise) do allow you to work on
the console, however I could be wrong, and in that case they are only useful
for pure client/server workloads.
Hope this helps,

Clare


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Helgren" <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Mailing List" <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:13 AM
Subject: The i5 an interactive workloads


> I am not a sales guy but I get asked a lot of questions from my customers
> about hardware configurations.  Most of them I can answer but lately it
has
> gotten a bit more difficult to figure out what the right answer is.  Here
> are two examples:
>
> 1. What does the interactive CPW rating mean and what does it do to the
> number of people who can sign on? My answer:  "I don't know." I see these
> CPW ratings but I never get a "real world" sense of what they mean.  If
they
> have a 520 express edition with 500 CPW and 30 interactive CPW, is there a
> limit to number of folks who can sign on?  Or, is it just that it gets
"dog
> slow" to the point that you don't *want* to sign on?
>
> 2. Is there an iSeries with NO interactive CPW?  My answer: I think so,
> but what *IS* it then?  The iSeries is a killer server platform but it is
> defined by the 5250 interface (OK, so I am hopelessly out of date) so with
> NO interactive that means I can't sign on to a console?  I have no command
> line access?  I am forced, then, to use the Operations Obfuscator to find
my
> way around?  Yikes!  A model 550 with no 5250 interface
seems...well...alien
> somehow.
>
> So, if someone could give me the short course on the interactive workload
of
> the i5, I would appreciate it
>
> Pete Helgren
> Value Added Software,Inc.
> 801.581.1154 x202
>


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