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On POWER, we're talking about drives. For Windows, there's the server, expansion enclosure and drives, plus the extra labor to babysit the server. While we have a Windows server now, it will most likely have to be replaced within the life of the new POWER9, and that would cost a lot more than the price of the POWER drives.
IBMi does the file serving. Currently the document management software copies the files from Windows to an IFS directory where the clients access them. Do you really think that will be faster than IBMi copying files from one IFS dir to another?
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:52 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Large volume file move
I know that Richard is coming off as highly sarcastic but I too have to wonder why the big push to move this stuff to IBM i. We've done file serving from IBM i. Normally Windows beats IBM i in file serving hands down. Even on older hardware you could be using the same drives and all but stick in an IPCS card in there and load Windows on it and it would smoke file serving from the predecessors of IBM i.
IBM i has touted newer versions have caught up some but they still have a way to go.
General policy here is that IBM i is not to be used as a file server unless there's a really compelling reason to do so, such as CPYTOIMPF type stuff.
Rob Berendt
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