Re: Question about UDB on iSeries -- MIDRANGE-L

A few questions back to you may help define what is needed:
Much of this is dependent upon how large & complex a shop you are.
1. Are you going to run a mirroring system or disaster recovery system. -
the iSeries comes with several options in hardware drives for mirroring or
raid5, but some larger shops may also run
a real-time or delayed backup system.
1a. Are your apps using committment control to be able to roll back an
update? Or do you
use journalling to track file changes? Without costing much, some good tools
to manage journals.
2. Are you a public company subject to Sarbanes Oxley? even if not, there
are some security and audit tools you will want to consider. The iSeries can
be extremely secure if a fairly large number of steps are taken, and with no
iSeries experience you will want a package for this.
3. If looking for operator-less or minimal operations, and have large batch
processing, the
built in job scheduler works for some, but something like Help Systems -
Robot works well.
4. You may want to consider a partition system to keep development separate
from production
(one piece of hardware but 2 or more "systems").
5. The base email system is "basic". I personally would not use for a large
corp, other than outbound emails from programs.
6. I have not used the Info Print Server & Designer software from IBM, a
separate chargeable option, but if you are doing a lot of print/email/fax
apps IBM's tool or there are many on the market.
Are you using AFP (advanced function print) on mainframe?

It's not the UDB that keeps you busy - it's all the other stuff.
hth
jim

>
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:05:34 -0600, McKown, John
> <john.mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Please keep in mind that I know **ZERO** about the iSeries and UDB. We
are considering a conversion from z/OS on zSeries to i5OS on iSeries. The
company doing the presentation basically said that everything that we need,
with a few exceptions, is integrated into the i5OS on the iSeries. In
particular UBD is integrated (so we don't need to buy it). But I was
wondering if any iSeries people out there have an opinion about the lack of
requirement for any extra software to support UDB on iSeries. Such as
performance monitors, reorganization utilities, anything at all? I'm
confused (as usual) about why UDB on iSeries does not require any such
software while it appears, to me, that DB2 on z/OS really requires a lot of
extra cost software. This is the whole reason that we are considering this
conversion. z/OS simply requires too much extra cost software compared to
other platforms.
> >
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