Re: AIX suggestions

The basic rule should be "Let IBM i do what IBM i does the best, and let
*ix do what *ix does the best."

I'm an open source guy since the 1980's. I chat daily on ibmioss with the
heroes who are wrestling with all the open source stuff on IBM i.

I'm glad to have grep and perl on IBM i, but if you're going to serve up
IBM i data from a modern website, why not just use Linux where all this
stuff is configured out of the box and slurp the data from the IBM i LPAR?

"Because it's THERE!" isn't a business case.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't think the IFS itself is slow, but have you ever tried backing up
millions of small document files. Now that's slow.

We've had many of our WebDocs customers migrate to SAN over the years for
the document storage because of this and object permission limitations on
IBMi.

One customer was creating over a million docs per month and we were
creating a new profile to own those objects every 30 days to prevent
issues. Doh !!

Regards,

Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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message: 5
date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:40:02 +0000
from: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: AIX suggestions

Jim,

I'd be curious why you say the IFS is slow.
Prior to SSD and ASYNCBRING, I would agree.

IFS save less than 10 minutes.

Decades back we had a sandbox Linux LPAR with disks hosted from the i.
It was ugly, gone.

Paul


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