Where to put Central Objects?

DMiller

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I will be installing a new instance of OneWorld Xe and would like to have your opinion about where to put Central Objects?
For those of you that have them installed on the AS/400, how do they work there? Any problems? How long does a full client & server package build take for you?
Did anyone out there put them on one or the other and then later wish you'd have put them on the other option? If so, why?
Thanks in advance for the input!
 
Our CO are on AS/400. We have had no problems except it takes longer to connect to CO when logging in. Also the client package build takes longer.

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Diane...

Do they work on an AS/400?? Of course they do. As far as package build
times, it depends. I have a client right now doing full package builds
on the AS/400 in 3 hours...I also have clients that had builds times in
the 12-14 hour range, and they decided to move the CO's off onto a SQL
Server box.

It looks from your configuration that you already have SQL Server, so you
probably have the hardware and admin expertise to handle the CO's on it.

You can always throw enough money at the 400 to make it as fast as you
want if package building time is your only concern...in fact,
theoretically, you should be able to get full package builds down to
about an hour or so...if you purchase the correct AS/400!! ;)

FYI, since ERP 9 and after will be based on UDB, and I've heard that the
current conversion process is, well, lets just say the initial time
estimates to run the UDB conversion is measured in days, not hours, you
may wish to bite the bullet with the new XE instance and go with UDB if
possible. If you eventually go to ERP 9.0 or beyond, you'll probably be
eliminating a huge time hit during the future upgrade.


On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:01:00 -0800 (PST) DMiller <[email protected]>
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Did anyone out there put them on one
Thanks in advance for the input!

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No problems here with CO on AS400.
package build (full client/server) takes a little less than 5 hours of which are 3 1/4 hours for client site (with compressing cause who needs that?)
Once our package build was 16 hours.
 
Our CO are in AS/400. I build the server package in Mutithread and takes less than 2 hours. Client of course takes about 3-31/2.
 
How large is your AS/400. Our setup is very similar but out CO are on the deployment server. Full combo build take 13-15 hours with compression. Our AS/400 is an 830 2way with 6mb of memory.
 
You can create a multi threaded job queue for package building so that
multiple business functions build simultaneously, greatly decreasing
build time.


On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:45:51 -0800 (PST) Madonna_Smeltzer

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If so, anyone have a suggestion how many threads would be too many on, say,
an AS/400.

-MEW
 
It's an 830 with 5 cpu's enabled; 684,4 Gigs of diskspace and 11 gigs of memory. package build on AS runs in a jobqueue that handles 11 processes at once.

Deployment server is a 2way xoen with 1 gig memory.

On the deployment server we've got the odbc connection for the CO's defined with 512 blocks under the performance tab. did also help at our site.
 
"since ERP 9 and after will be based on UDB"

Not sure what you mean by this?
 
ERP 9 and later release will require UDB compliant databases...this is a
big issue for anyone on the AS/400 platform. I believe my answer was to
someone who stated they were on the AS/400 platform considering
installing ERP 8 separately from the existing installation. One of my
suggestions was to, if possible, go with unicode on ERP 8 installation if
possible to minimize one of the current time intensive upgrade processes
in going to ERP 9.

At least that's what I think this question was in response to...seem to
suffer from CRS more and more each day.


On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:11:01 -0800 (PST) brother_of_kara

Not sure what you mean

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Re: RE: Where to put Central Objects?

We are running 15 processes at the same time. But I think this depends on your hardware. Our's is an 830 with 8 CPUs and 32GB memory.
 
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