Re: Why i??? NEED YOUR INPUT

I will agree with you that applying PTF's suck (I think that is what you
were saying). I rarely do it because it is such a pain in the butt. Note I
am NOT an admin type, but I don't think I should need to be. The only way I
have been able to do it is by way of your blog and wiki posts.

I want to be able to go into WRKPTFGRP, select a function key to check for
latest updates of the products I have installed, review the updates, and
select which ones I want to install - all from the green screen. I don't
want to get Java or my desktop involved because I inevitably have something
not quite setup right and have to go to different desktops to see which is
working well enough to make everything work from start to finish. Ok, I
will get off my soap box now....

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Lukas Beeler <
lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:19, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Below are some points that I have come up with:

Besides my earlier rant, i wanted to add some points from my
perspective that make the IBM i great:

* Good Integration between hardware and operating system. It's easy to
access information about the hardware in a standardized manner, and
the user interface for controlling most of the tasks is stable. No
need to deal with a variety of third party software just to get basic
hardware monitoring, which is the case with System x hardware.

* Powerful save and restore facilities, paired with proper
documentation and proper software can make machine migrations a
breeze. I've migrated customers from Power5-520s to Power 6 520s
during lunch (~1 hour of downtime). Even other scenarios, like booting
from a Save 21 tape on blank hardware are very good in the
environments i deal with. Sadly, IBM doesn't have any good no-frills
backup software (e.G. Save 21 nightly, which would easily be possible
with LTO4 drives in smaller machines).

That's all i can come up with. There are other things that are quite
good on the i (e.G. PTF), but many of these are hampered by IBM - the
technology behind it may be sound, but often there's just not enough
communication. IBM offers loads of security relevant PTFs, labelling
each of those just as "Integrity Fix" - you don't know what you're
dealing with. Microsoft communicates security issues much better.

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