Lukas, your input and challenges faces are valuable. There is nothing
wrong with your pointing out flaws on any platform. This group is the
best to provide input on how to get those flaws corrected or show you a
better way. If your input to IBM has fallen on deaf ears, I would like
to know who you talked with ...IBM is interested in anyone who is having
challenges with its systems. Feel free to contact me separately
alucas@xxxxxxxxxxx 205-823-4831
Frankly, instead of recommending Lukas go to another platform, let's
help him become a passionate System i person!
Anne Lucas
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message: 4
date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:32:34 +0200
from: "Lukas Beeler" <l.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Backup strategy
I'm puzzled by your reply. The System i isn't perfect, and I don't think
it's bad to talk about the flaws about any given platform - in the long
term this will help the platform to improve.
I've been working with the System i for two years now, and I'm currently
23 years old - thus I'm probably not the average person on this list
that has started on an AS/400. I also don't think that the System i is
the golden bullet to any IT problem.
There are many things that are good about it, but I don't really have
much interest in those, as a technician I have to care about the things
that do not work, or do not work good.
I've had my share of contacts with IBM, and I've submitted several PMRs
and Change Requests, and I've mostly fallen on deaf ears (most probably
because we sell to small businesses and not 5 million US$ 595 like other
people on this list).
I do not think that the System i is a bad platform, and I enjoy working
with it. But I think it's very important to have a look at the flaws of
this platform, and make them public. I'm neither a fan or supporter of
Windows or the System i - I work with both extensively, and I share my
experiences. As I'm not a marketing person, there's not much reason to
share all the good stories about the System i, there's also no reason
for me to post a list of things that Windows does much worse than the
System i.
I regularly blog about my experiences, and I've also published a few
manuals that are more straightforward than IBMs usual writing
(
http://projectdream.org/wordpress/category/system-i/).
I'm not going the retract my "IBM is lazy" statement, as I still
consider it to be true. But if it helps, I will add that Microsoft is
lazy too.
If the consent of this list (and not your sole opinion) is that I should
unsubscribe because I have an opinion different from the Usual
midrange-l groupthink, then I will do so.
Personal replies welcome.
.....Anne
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Have a blessed day!
Anne Lucas
Customer Account Executive, Genisys Group, Inc.
205-823-4831 Office, 205-746-6850 Mobile
615-250-4889 eFax or 615-224-2941
email: alucas@xxxxxxxxxxx
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date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:07:04 -0400
from: Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Backup strategy
Lukas.
Please leave our platform. It obviously does not work for you and I am
puzzled as to why you continue to run it with it's massive flaws, ugly
hacks, and incomplete capabilities. Clear Windows has everything you
would ever need in an operating system. Please enjoy it and I hope tt
will never fail you.
With your last comment I would recommend you apologize to the hundreds
of fine folks in Rochester who put their heart and soul into this
operating sytem. That is an INSULT and you should retract it forthwith.
- Larry
Lukas Beeler wrote:
BRMS console was a nasty hack that required manual interaction with
the system - thus, completely unusable for deployment. With V5R4, BRMS
can finally do all the stuff on it's own.
Quote:
However, you must start the console monitoring function on the system
console prior to leaving the machine to operate in unattended mode.
SWA is, for all intents and purposes, unusable - it has complicated
requirements for restores and also doesn't work correctly with legacy
programs that are not transaction safe. Thus, SWA is not an option (at
least for us).
And hey, Windows can do all this without any downtime, and without any
special configuration or waiting for V5R4. IBM is just lazy.
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