Re: iSeries specific benefit - Disk IO performance

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Steve, nice to get more material I can add to my "why we need to move
our apps off the i5" list  management has requested.

On 4/5/07, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You missed the fully integrated RDMS DB2/400 that is totally uncapped.
>
> I think the integrated db2 is becoming a problem for us.  With Java
> and PHP running in PASE, shops need the flexibility of having DB2 run
> native in PASE and having the legacy RPG apps thunk into PASE for
> their database access.   If we could run any database on the system
> our apps would be a lot more portable than they are now, with just as
> much functionality. Non i5 IBM might also be more amenable to our
> system if we were running the same db2 as AIX does.
>
> The strength of i5/OS is its object and encapsulation model. ( even
> ILE is a positive compared to what Linux as to offer ( guessing )).
> We dont need embedded DB2 and SLS to get external program calls,
> SAVLIB, output queues, commands, CL, system APIs and ILE procedure
> calls.
>
> -Steve
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