RE: SAP

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

No offense or anything but it you were moving off of BPCS I'm surprised
to hear you say that "... over 100 access paths over some files - a
nightmare " was any worse then some of the BPCS files ? :-) I saw that
on BPCS at a former employer...

Chuck


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Bull Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:36 AM
 
At a former place of employment ... in 1999 ... a project was started to
migrate off the non-2K compliant version of BPICS and onto SAP.  The
AS/400
version of the SAP-server was fairly new, full of bugs, there were only
a
very few other users of our version, and performance was dreadful. 

This was the only time I have ever advised to dump an AS/400 - dumping
SAP
was NOT an option.  Within six weeks Compaq servers were installed and
running the SAP instances very effectively.

We had tried just about everything else before this action.  The SAP
database, which was journalled, had created over 100 access paths over
some
files - a nightmare.  This was a few years ago, so I hope things have
improved - I quite liked the application side of things.

Jeff Bull