RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

["Haase, Justin C." <justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I gotta tell you folks, using iSeries Navigator to set up 6 new LPARs
once they were up on-network and communicating - FANTASTIC.  As long as
it was command-based, I could use iSeries nav to send it to a group of
systems and do all at once - sysvals, outqueues, device config,
jobscde's - A GARGANTUAN TIMESAVER!  PTF compares, sysval compares, user
profile distribution - amazing.  

Plus, being able to do HMC console from my desk - perhaps the best ever.
It's soooo much better now than we've ever had it before.

--
Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:01 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

Douglas,

Sure changing for the sake of change doesn't make much sense.

But I'd be willing to bet that in most cases, you could find some
improvements in changing from green screen to GUI.

The ROI might take a while, but eventually it would pay off.

Not to mention that you wouldn't have to worry about a CEO/CIO being
convinced to get rid of the "legacy" system in favor of something
modern.

Charles Wilt
--
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer Mitsubishi Electric Automotive
America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:43 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence
> 
> You are correct Charles, and I would also add that changing for change

> sake is not in my opinion a valid reason to change.
> 
> For us, green screen works and works well!  We do not have a need for 
> high end graphics in our operational departments.  Others may in fact 
> have that need; however, for us it is the reliability and uptime that 
> is most important, something of which we have never been able to 
> achieve with any other platform.
> 

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