This might relieve some of the issues on your GP engine, but whatever is processing the data on the GP side will still be doing the same amount of work. All that is being offloaded is the DB2 engine processing, which may or may not be sizeable (depending upon lots of issues). Doing this over hipersockets certainly makes the communications part easier/cheaper.
On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:34 pm, you wrote: > All, > > On our traditional mainframe system, we are running a z/800-001 that is > maxed out on CPU. We are trying to figure out ways to relieve this > without buying another GP engine, and pay the big software costs. > > What I'm wondering is would it be possible, and if so, how smart would > it be to try and move our DB2 workload to a Linux/390 server, and then > have all the "traditional" mainframe apps access it remotely? Is this > a path worth looking at? > > The reason I ask, is that and IFL bundled with z/VM is pretty cheap, and > and I could utilize hipersockets. > > Waddya all think? > > Dave > > __________________________________________________________ > Dave Jousma > Lead Systems Administrator - Information Technology > Spartan Stores, Inc. > PO Box 8700 > Grand Rapids, MI 49518 > (616) 878-2883 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rich Smrcina Sr. Systems Engineer Sytek Services, A Division of DSG Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2003 in Winston-Salem, NC. April 25-29, 2003 For details see http://www.wavv.org
