Re: What's an IASP?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

	Welcome to V5R2. :-)  Seriously that's when iASPs arrived. Not a lot of 
folks used them then and they got much more useful with V5R3. With i 6.1 
the entire POWER HA Suite arrived that's finally when most customers 
were introduced to them. Frankie (the 170 that hosts www.midrange.com) 
has had an iASP since he was created! Jim Oberholtzer and I did an iASP 
Presentation at COMMON in Indianapolis with Frankie and that was so long 
ago, Frankie hadn't even been named yet!

	Seriously though traditional RPG/Cobol/CL applications have very few 
issues at all with iASPs. Mostly you simply need to understand the 
concepts of libraries in iASPs and the relationship between PFs, LFs, 
and Journals - all of which must be IN or OUT of an iASP.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 6/12/2013 8:04 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

> A customer called to ask about any compatibility issues between our CRM
> product and a Power HA system using IASP from IBM for disaster recovery.
>
> This is the first I've heard of IASPs. I've found the Redbook about it,
> but I'd also kind of like to know what the collective wisdom of the List
> can tell me about them.
>
> I remember one time, years ago, when some QuestView users got bitten by
> ASPs, and I had to modify some things in the code, for compatibility; do
> IASPs have any potential to bite?
>
> --
> JHHL