RE: WebSphere on NT vs. AS/400

I used WebSphere on NT for about two weeks.  I wasn't comfortable with the 
response time or the environment, and as soon as possible I got it running on 
my AS/400.  I've had no problems with it whatsoever on the three AS/400s I've 
used (a model 150, a model 170 and now a model 270).  My only concern with 
using it on a production machine is that, like any other development 
environment, you can hog resources - it's possible, without too much effort 
<grin>, to create looping servlets that just suck down your CPU.

On the other hand, WebSphere has been very good about letting me shut down the 
server hard and bring it back up.  If something hangs and the server doesn't 
want to end, I can always ENDSBS QEJBSBS *IMMED and then start it back up again.

Joe Pluta
Pluta Brothers Consulting, Inc.
847-359-2657


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: mcrump@sgcontainers.com
Reply-To: WEB400@midrange.com
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:46:59 -0500

>

Mike,

I would agree with him for the most part.  For testing and becoming familiar
there is very little risk for your production machine.  We are actually just
starting to use WAS Advanced 3.5 on one of our production boxes.....I'll admit
I'm still pretty much a neophyte at all of this.  But I think the install and
configuration of WAS can be pretty granular with little impact to your existing
environment.

Michael Crump
Saint-Gobain Containers
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
Muncie, IN  47302
(765)741-7696
(765)741-7012 f
(800)428-8642




My boss and I are just back from the Northeast IBM User Group Conference
(which was great!), and now we're psyched to try to set up WebSphere and
start learning about it. He's very pro-AS/400, so he ultimately wants to
run it there (I may forward some of the recent postings on this list to
him!), and we're having a debate: I say we should set it up on an NT box
first to play with it, but he thinks that won't gain us much because the
AS/400 is such a different environment that we'd have the same learning
curve when we tried to move it over.

Any thoughts on this? I know it probably seems strange that the boss is
the one willing to risk the production box, but he's kind of an unusual
guy. . . .

Thanks!

Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA  01376
413-863-4357 x444
mnaughton@juddwire.com

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