'W' environments - pros and cons

\'W\' environments - pros and cons

JDE List,

I am looking for 'pro' and 'con' info regarding using (or not) 'W'
environments in a OneWorld implementation.

My current client is running OW ERP8, SP22_K1, Update 1 on a WinTel
platform with Oracle databases running on Tru64 Unix.

Thanks,
James

Re: \'W\' environments - pros and cons

James,

Our perspective.

Pros:
1. If your ES/DS are the same box performance is outstanding, as the data moves at bus speed instead of network speed.
2. You can fit many more users on a Citrix box if the users are not running MBF's locally.

Cons:

1. Very hard to configure correctly, it took uxs about 3 months of testing to get it right. There are a million dependencies between bsnf's, none of which are well documented.
2. Harder for CNC to maintain, but I never worried about backend issues, as long as the end user sees betters performance and ease of use. After all we are supposed to be the experts.

Tom Davidson

Re: \'W\' environments - pros and cons

The going perspective appears to be that it is less expensive to just purchase more terminal servers than to deal this three-tier architecture. Hidden costs of the three tier architecture include:
- Administrative cost to maintain multiple logic servers or a the cost of a bigger enterprise server.
- Lost productivity related to debbugging issues related to this architecture.

Search this forum for 'Altquark' and Terminal Server to find some various discussions on this topic.

Re: \'W\' environments - pros and cons

eek ! (runs away and hides !!!!)

I told a customer recently to move away from the W environments - and this single recommendation led them to a much higher stability in their environment.

My recommendation is - go with non-W environments for Terminal Servers - or go with J environments for a mix of Terminal Servers and JAS clients. The J environments seem to work real well on Citrix (except for development tools - which require the 2-tier environments anyway).

The core recommendation is - pick one set of mappings and stick with it - enforce all users to log in through those mappings - this ensures that you have a full understanding of where issues might be located when they appear.

Hope that helps ! Thanks for the nudge Mr Shearer !!!

Re: \'W\' environments - pros and cons

We just started testing terminal server. Can we just run the PD7333 environment?

Patty

Re: \'W\' environments - pros and cons

Sully, if you are asking if you can have a TSE installation with just the PD7333 environment... the answer is yes. In fact, we have production and non- production Citrix servers. PD is on the production boxes and PY/DV are on the non-production.

Re: \'W\' environments - pros and cons

Charles

Thanks for your response.

Patty