RE: possible Lawson newbie

Lawson runs I believe on 3 platforms. Iseries, Windows, and Unix. I believe the 
ISeries platform is best for Lawson, having been to their technical conferences 
and heard their Unix and Windows Cobol horror stories. On the Iseries it has 
been written in ILE for many years and I understand they have moved to Java 
more heavily.
See if you can get to a technical conference in the near future, that is the 
best place to hear the real deal.

HTH,
Phil Kestenbaum
Systems Admin
G-III Leather Fashions



-----Original Message-----
From:   midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Craig Otway
Sent:   Tue 6/28/2005 5:56 PM
To:     midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject:        possible Lawson newbie

I am a MVS guy looking for real answers to a possible new Lawson 
implementation.  We would be running Lawson in a ASP(application service 
provider) format and our current box does not run DB2 v8. This leads us to the 
other side(AS400, AIX, UNIX/Oracle, iSeries). I think I would only consider MS 
for the webserver.   

1. Any of you Lawson 8+ users on AS400 wish you were on another platform?
2. What platforms would you pick for the (webserver, app server, db server)?
3. If we currently have 3000 concurrent users on our MVS box, what would that 
be on an  iSeries / AS400 or are we taking server farm? 
4. What obstacles to implementation should we focus on?
 

 Any recommendations or suggestions on Lawson, platform, db, OS...... would be 
great. Thanks.