Re: Guess they didn't use an iSeries... -- MIDRANGE-L

Paul,

I'm sure *you* realize it, but not everyone else on the list does: The436 was an "Advanced /36". It ran SSP, not OS/400. It was, also, thefirst 64 bit RISC system in IBM (the planet?)

So you're saying that they are still running their pension systems on aSystem/36? I guess, if it works for you, go with it.



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pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

  Well, for the important stuff, Cook County uses an iSeries running JDE.
  The city of Chicago is a little more backwards. The fire and police
  pension administration system is running an old AS/400 model 436.

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    To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    From: Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
    Date: 03/28/2006 12:21AM
    Subject: Re: Guess they didn't use an iSeries...

    It's all those dead people voting....messes up things every time.....

    Pete

    Joe Pluta wrote:

    >Cook County is embroiled in controversy yet again, although this time
    it's
    >the machines not The Machine.  Nearly a week after elections, votes are
    >still being counted - votes that were supposed to be counted
    automatically
    >by the Sequoia Voting Systems electronic balloting machines.  And while
    >Sequoia insists that their systems are more secure than Diebold's
    because
    >they don't use Windows, as it turns out this is only the voting machine
    >itself.  The back end "WinEDS" system (which does the tallying and
    >reporting) uses Microsoft SQL Server as its database, and evidently it
    has a
    >problem counting a million or so votes.
    >
    >DB2/400 posts a million transactions in seconds (or maybe minutes, but
    >certainly not days!).
    >
    >I'm being a bit facetious here.  From what I could see, voters vote on
    a
    >touch screen, then the touch screen results are printed out on special
    >forms, which are then fed into a reader.  It's the reader that seems to
    be
    >the bottleneck.  But I'm just guessing.
    >
    >Joe
    >
    >

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