Your description infers that the US plants and distribution locations run on a new IBM Power server running IBMi, and the Canadian operations have IBM Power server running AIX , the VARNET application, and the Progress DB.
As suggested, they could run US and Canada on a single Power server having two logical partitions (1 for AIX, and 2 for IBMi).
iSeries boxes were discontinued in 2006 (17 years ago) and are no longer supported by IBM or other vendors, and not suitable for running modern workloads.
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Not a switch; more of an extension.
A multi-plant client, running the application, supports all their US plants and distribution locations off a single iSeries. Their Canadian operations would like to use my application but they run AIX, the VARNET application, and the Progress DB.
Roy Luce
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Hi Roy,
It sounds like you have a working application. What is the reason for the switch?
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On 5/18/2023 7:09 AM, Roy Luce - Long Pier Solutions wrote:
In response to Jack Woehr's request for a further description of the application:
The referenced application, written in RPG3, extracts supply and demand info from MRP databases, then builds a proprietary reporting database. The reporting database is moved off the iSeries to an SQL server which supports the users' reporting requirements.
The application does not have any transactions - MRP supplies the transactions. Its database is basically a snapshot of a manufacturer's inventory and production requirements at the time it is run.
Roy Luce
Direct – 847-910-0884
833-937-8368
Email –lwl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: OS400 vs AIX
It really depends on what the application does. Do you want to describe it further, Roy?
On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 7:05 AM Roy Luce - Long Pier Solutions <lwl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an iSeries application, written in ILE, which runs in the
OS400/DB2 environment.
What does it take to run that same application in an AIX//Progress DB
environment?
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