Re: OfficeVision (fwd)

[Neil Palmer <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 02:34:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Neil Palmer <neil@systemetrix.ca>
To: Cheri Katzung <cherik@execpc.com>
Subject: Re: OfficeVision

Cheri
Definitely sounds like you should be looking for new software.  Sounds 
like these clowns are treating the 400 like a big S/36.  Interactive 
sorts !   How barbaric.  
I wonder what the status of this software is as far as being Year 2000
compliant ?  You'll probably need to replace it anyway - better now than
later.
Anyway - as to what you can do with the garbage you have inherited,     
assuming their interactive sorts are basically jobs that sort a file &
print a report, you should easily be able to change them to submit to a
JOBQ, or even EVOKE them, to free up your terminal and improve interactive
response time (you may want to try setting system value QTSEPOOL to *BASE
if it isn't set that way already)
Yes the new RISC boxes with V3R7 come with the QSECURITY system value
set to 40, and yes you CAN set it to 20 if you want, but again, you would
probably be better off taking the money you have budgeted for a hardware
upgrade and investing it in new application software.  A decently written
package, that doesn't require the S/36EE, will probably improve your 
performance on your present hardware anyway.
As for OV/400 - not really much new.  There is an optional extra that
will handle mail forwarding for you (forget the name at tt the moment), 
but apart from that, and OV/400 Current for helping remote user's who dial
into the system for mail etc., there's nothing happening with OV/400.
IBM's strategy is to provide a migration path to Lotus Notes.
,

On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Cheri Katzung wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> I need some help.   I'm working on a 400 but running software in the 36
> environment (yuk!) that was written for the S/34 or so it looks like in the
> OCL.  I just came back from a 4 day seminar in Houston for this software
> and didn't learn a thing except that the company thinks their software is
> great and everyone should run on terminals (not PCs.)  
> They use a lot of interactive sorts and I wanted to write some CL programs
> to submitted the @#!* to QBATCH but their suggestion is to upgrade the
> system to 3.2 or 3.7  (I'm running 3.1)  Wouldn't submitting to batch give
> me some speed?
> I read somewhere that 3.7 automatically comes with level 40 security, is
> this true?  This software runs with level 20 and in order to not let users
> do anything, they give limited access even though all users have *ALLOBJ.
> If 3.7 comes with 40, can I take it down to 20?
> Also, I understand that OV/400 has some enhancements to it that can be
> purchased.  How do I get information about these?
> TIA
> Cheri
> 
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