W environment pros and cons

[jdcmwilson]

JDE List,

As a consultant I am not recommending that my current client use the W
environments, however, they are going to be looking for "whys" other than
just that they are more trouble than they are worth (which is what I
understand).

Can someone point me to documentation regarding why I may or may not want to
use the W environments?

Thanks,
James Wilson
CNC Consultant

OW Xe B73.3.3 SP16 AIX
IBM RS/6000 AIX 4.3.3 Enterprise Server (Central Objects)
Oracle DB 8.1.6.3
NT 4.0 Deployment Server
"fat" Win95/Win98 and TSE/Citrix "thin" clients




All views are expressly my own and in no way reflect those of my employer.

 

[SSAJAROFF92]

James :

I don't have any formal documentation but pros and cons are :

Pros

1) You decrease processing charge on the Citrix boxes, so you can
acommodate more users per server.
2) It's a recommended and supported JDE practice (though it doesn't
work very well!!!)
3) You can separate thin and fat activity, for example regular users
access WPRD733 and developers use PRD733. This can be useful for
auditing purposes.

Cons

1) BSFN execute on the Enterprise, so its processing charge increases.
2) You can't deploy a full server package when some guy is either
running an UBE or executing a BSFN.
3) More environments to maintain.

Sebastian Sajaroff