Re: What's an iASP?

Hi Nathan

you said "whereas IASPs are only designed for Libraries"; that's a pretty
interesting statement,

My recollection is that switchable disk was originally introduced to
support Domino and library support was not available until V5R2. Previously
ONLY the IFS was supported.

You can certainly put IFS files into an IASP, you just need to specify the
path correctly.


On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Last year I listed some of the benefits of IASPs in the following link:

http://rd.radile.com/rdweb/info2/iasp01.html

At the same time I committed to a goal of ensuring that our web portal and
applications would support them, which has been something of a journey.

In regard to "software", a good chunk of it stored in IFS stream files
these days, whereas IASPs are only designed for Libraries. If you have
"software" in Libraries, technically that might be stored in SYSBAS while
storing your "database objects" in IASPs that are linked to PowerHA for
remote mirroring. However we store our ILE programs, service programs, and
other native objects in IASPs too.

A few of our software components such as subsystem descriptions and Job
descriptions must be stored in SYSBAS in order to work.









On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
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