Re: Advanced Job Scheduler

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Vern,

Your memory is serving you well.  I have been asking a lot of questions
about setting up machines, and that is pain by choice.  I've been working
on automating the configuration of development and deployment environments
on IBM i(n1).  It works and is being used for labs at a variety of
conferences this spring (WMCPA, NEUGC, COMMON, OCEAN, CEC2016.se).  Next we
are working to automate procurement of single-tenant cloud-based IBM i;
similar to how one would procure an AWS instance.  Through automation we
hope to keep costs very competitive.  Stay tuned.

Previous to a few years ago I didn't do much admin on IBM i.  Even when I
purchased machines for my basement I don't believe I ever really installed
PTFs or updated anything (maybe once or twice in 5yrs).  So now I am coming
at this with ignorance and perspective based on using AWS.  In short,
thanks for everyone's patience with my questions and pressing for better
approaches.


n1 - KrengelTech's Litmis Spaces (spaces.litmis.com) effort

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Aaron
>
> Recently you've had several posts about setting up various things on a new
> server - is my memory still working?
>
> Do you really want a Pick-A-Part kind of thing (hope the analogy is
> reasonably a close one!) for setting up a new machine, getting the
> dependencies right and all? Yes, BP's have an application that has those
> rules in it. Considering how it seemed you're a fair distance from setting
> up a box - you do have those pix of you saying Giddy-up! on a 520, IIRC -
> it seems that you would not want something like the Amazon thing, etc.
>
> Now some things ARE being done differently - ACS is available for trial
> with a simple download - and updates similarly simple to get. RDi updates
> can be done by changing a repository in Installation Manager.
>
> So, as you said, I believe it really depends on what you're ordering -
> hey, I bet there's someone out there that would like a partner to make the
> setup for production-level SQL Server boxes, right? Sure, we can get some
> of it altogether for working on in our spare room, but for depending on
> these things for our businesses, well, we probably need help or
> highly-certified people in our companies.
>
> Just random thoughts - JMNSHO!
> Vern