RE: Alternate to iSeries

[daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Maybe you can present it in a different light--If a hacker can't break in
to the iSeries he might have better luck with the AIX system.  It also
gives you more battle fronts to cover.  If you change a program in one
environment you also have to make the corresponding change to the other,
etc...

Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
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Two sites 1,000+ miles apart.  Two different phone carriers and two
different ISP's.  UPS and generators at each location.  Either site can run
100% of our volume but we are currently load balancing and mirroring
between
the sites.  But the equipment is the same at both sites.  If someone
figures
how to kill an iSeries remotely, they can kill both sites.  If they are
different platforms, they may not be able to do so.  Only communications
are
through a service provider, modes off protocol converters, Touch Tone, or
thru web servers in a DMZ that communicate to the AS400 thru our RPGLE
application.  Jobs run with no authority on the system except to
read/add/update (no delete) to the database.  I might be able to do a DOS
attack on the web servers but that can only be blocked by the ISP.  Choke
point is the T1 from them to us.

Chris Bipes

-----Original Message-----

With all that, i think a far more likely global meltdown is your
communications,
not the servers. Do you have redundancy for your communication providers?
Do you have hot site availability? Long term power generation at main and
remote site?
Need to build a Disaster Avoidance/Recovery plan around what you have
before
looking to something like platform issues.
btw-i wouldn't laugh too hard at the idea of bringing an OS down globally,
the
internet worms are getting better... but more likely Win/Nix/Mac or the
routers
and firewalls, dns, etc.
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