Re: Alternate to iSeries -- MIDRANGE-L

With all that, i think a far more likely global meltdown is your
communications,
not the servers. Do you have redundancy for your communication providers?
Do you have hot site availability? Long term power generation at main and
remote site?
Need to build a Disaster Avoidance/Recovery plan around what you have before
looking to something like platform issues.
btw-i wouldn't laugh too hard at the idea of bringing an OS down globally,
the
internet worms are getting better... but more likely Win/Nix/Mac or the
routers
and firewalls, dns, etc.
jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Bipes" <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: RE: Alternate to iSeries


> There is no CL required and no reporting, query or other type of utilities
> like that.  But we do make use of Data Queues and ICF for our mirroring.
> The mirroring can be re-written to use TCP/IP.  This is a straight DDS
RPGLE
> server program that calls several RPGLE programs.  We have our own service
> programs which is why it has to be ILE.  The only API's are for TCP/IP
> communications, STD and SSL as well as that Data Queue processing.  We
have
> ICF over V.24 and V.35 using x.25.  Lots of communications with IVR DOS
PC's
> Web servers and box X running x.25.  (Not our hardware and no console so I
> do not know exactly what it runs just how to communicate with it.)
>
> The main server job is updated on a regular basis as we offer new option
to
> our service or receive data from a new POS terminal.  I would like that to
> be the same on all platforms.  The communications can be specific to the
> platform.  The data queues would be really nice to have but we can
re-write
> the entire system to use some other way of moving transaction data from
the
> comm processes to the application processes.  Currently we have 40 comm
> processes queuing transactions to 3 application processes.  (Ok jobs on
the
> iSeries.)
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:11 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Alternate to iSeries
>
> Which also begs the questions:
> API's?
> CL?
> Possible rewrite of commands like:  SNDDST, RUNQRY, etc
> And I've got a few operations I'd wonder about in RPG that I am loathe to
> bring up because I wouldn't want anyone not to use them in case their boss
> goes off the deep end too and they have to worry about portability -
> especially since I don't know if they are even a valid concern.
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