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What's YOUR experience with RS/6000?

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by julieo in miami

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I'm interested in what experiences others have had with RS/6000 servers.
- What are you running on them - OS, DBMS and applications?
- How do you support them - internally or outsourced?
- Why did you decide to go with RS6000's rahter than the alternatives?
- How reliable have you found the machines to be? How scaleable?
- Experiences and war stories on RS/6000 running Oracle or DB2 would be expecially appreciated
- How do you share data with your other systems FTP? File Shares?
- Do your users have terminal access to the RS6000's, and if so how did you connect them?

Thanks very much for any and all help you can give.

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by djudice

I work as a Systems Analyst for a major medical office management software developer and primarily work with our larger clients. Over 95% of these clients use RS/6000 machines.
- We run our medical office management software containing databasesof all financial and in some cases clinical data for numerous physician's offices.
- In some cases the client's IT dept supports the machines internally, in other cases our sales offices provide support the sites IT dept and in a few cases the sites rely on outsourcing either with a HW vendor or IBM direct.
- I would not trade anything for the reliability of these machines. They rarely ever have problems and run for many months with even rebooting while providing reliable platforms storing millions of data records and hosting as many as 2100 users at a time.
- They are extremenly reliable and depending on the model chosen, are very scaleable. We have a some sites that start out with a single or dual processor box and later add more processors or SSA drive arrays to the same machine.
- I have not used Orable or DB2 in this environment.
- We have used both FTP and file shares. Check out www.factecorp.com for Facetwin which is a great terminal emulation package that supports Windoze SMB type file shares.
- We primarily access the servers with emulation products like Facetwin, ICEtcp, etc, but some sites still use dumb terminals like Wyse 60's.

Hope this helps you some. I love RS/6000 machines and recommend them very highly.

David

by dgmdaily

I am a consultant that has been working full time with RS/6000s, supporting a manufacturing firm since 1994.

I read David's reply and agree that the RS/6000 is a very stable, expandable, friendly platform.

The application I support at this site is SAP running on top of an Oracle database with the AIX operation system. I have found the combination to be stable and easy to support. I cannot think of a single instance where the source of a problem could be attributed to an AIX or Oracle error.

All of our users access the system via PC's running the SAP GUI. Other than myself, no one logs on to AIX or Oracle directly. Everyine accesses data via SAP. So I do not have much to offer in the way of experience in user management at the AIX or Oracle level.

Best of luck with your decision.

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