Re: What's an iASP?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, but you use application replication as opposed to how PowerHA does it.
Application replication is fine, it's just not a good fit for this customer
and time.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ... but in general I agree that the vendor does need to have some passing
> familiarity with this terminology.
> OTOH, the only time I've ever used an iASP was in the Rochester lab and I
> have three Power systems, each with multiple lpars.
>
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> From:   "Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   08/14/2018 03:39 PM
> Subject:        What's an iASP?
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> That question was just asked of me by an OEM software vendor that is well
> known and been in the AS/400/iSeries/System i/IBM i space for quite some
> time.  I was asking if the software they sell would run in an iASP so it
> could be replicated by PowerHA.
>
> Then I went on to discover that rather than use the job description
> values,
> in all of the software the values were hard coded into the various SBMJOB
> commands in the software.
>
> How do these guys stay in business?
>
> If you are an OEM software vendor, at least try and keep up with the
> terminology so you don't sound as ignorant as this one is.   Better yet
> support the new technology available.  Clearly I will not identify the
> company but geesh.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
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