Re: RODIN and other DW, DM, BI implementations on iSeries

Dave,

We don't use RODIN but have a fairly large DW based on the iSeries.  Our
main vendor is Showcase.  My personal observation is that the iSeries is
not given serious attention in this area.  We can always
discuss/argue/contemplate why but part of the issue seems to be the
traditional I can start very small on some cheap affordable WINTEL platform
or I can go spend more up front for iSeries processing power.

Regardless of why people make certain decisions I will say that we are very
happy with our large iSeries implementation (1.7TB) and love the stability
and ease of management.  I truly think that if my database was either SQL
Server or Oracle I would be spending a lot more time managing the database.
As it is that 1.7TB takes less than 1% of my time on an annual basis -
backup, storage, recovery, and performance management.  I could always do
more but even then the number would be pretty darn low.

We pull in data from multiple iSeries systems as well as other SQL Server,
Oracle databases, and Domino databases.  We also do OLAP functions using
ESSBASE on the iSeries.




                                                                           
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If any of you know of implementations of RODIN (the good, the bad and
the ugly) or other actual implementations of Data Warehouse and Business
Intelligence environments (same thing, good, bad...) on the iSeries, I'd
like to hear about them.   I don't think the iSeries is being taken
seriously in this world but I could be mistaken.  Implementation numbers
and business benefit will tell the tale, to date.

Thanks in advance,

Dave Odom
Arizona
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