Cognos coversion from mainframe to PC

[Jared Stone]

I know I'm new on the list, but I have to say I really like hearing from
those, that can qualify as the "salt of the earth."  

In my experience, I too,have enormous confidence in the reliability of hp
3000's.  they were ahead of the pack in the late 1970's and stayed strong
throughout the pc revolution, where mind-loss seems to be the common
characteristic, among the once-sensible.  

DEC and HP battled, VAX to MPE, VMS to MPE/ix, and so on.  Once you learn
them both from the inside, you realize they are not all that different,
except in terminology.  DEC edges HP in network management,though. NS/3000
is just an updated name for DS/3000.  The DSNxxxx utility is what executes.
The LAN cards later to hit hp helped put them on the network.  Best, under
Novell netware, in my exposure.  DEC goes beyond hp in this arena with
clusters.  

Just for contrast, In 1986, I once told S/38 IBMer's about on-line updates.
I spoke about 4GL's and the screen handling.  My "story" was dubbed "Star
Wars" and the MAPICs users group never believed I could be telling anything
but a fable.  How could an HP do such a thing?  How could software behave
like that?


> 
> >To: 'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
> >From: Robert J.M. Edis on Wed, Apr 14, 1999 3:33 PM
> >Subject: Re: Cognos coversion from mainframe to PC
> 
> Blue writes:
> 
> > The HP/MPE box is the LEAST reliable of the three and goes down
whenever
> > the  airconditioning fluctuates.
> 
> 
> I have worked on an HP3000 for 19 years.  I can only remember having 
> our computer down one day in the 19 years due to hardware failure.  
> I would would have to say that HP 3000 w/MPEix is an extremely 
> reliable box.  During the last 5 years, I don't remember it ever 
> crashing except for a severe thunderstorm and we didn't have a 
> power conditioner at the time.  We've had lots of troubles with 
> the air conditioning but the HP still never crashed.  And during 
> upgrades it has never taken more than a few hours to get everything 
> running as before.   We have been through several boxes of HP3000s 
> and operating systems and never had any serious problems.  We still 
> have programs running in RPG that were written over 25 years ago 
> on an old IBM mainframe and ported over to the HP.
> 
> My new iMac freezes up at least 4 times/week! (The newest Macintosh)
> 
> Since I have never worked on any other mini computer I have nothing 
> to compare to.  But I know of one business in our town that had an 
> HP3000 and management planned to convert to an IBM box because 
> IBM did a lot more wining and dining of management.  After 5 years 
> they still had both boxes running side by side and couldn't get everything

> converted.  They went through several programmers and noone would 
> stay long enough to get the job done.  I believe they finally got
converted 
> all the way over but it was a huge mess.
> 
> I love HP and Powerhouse and would be happy to work on them for the 
> next 6 years until I can retire.  I am looking forward to doing stuff on 
> the Internet in the next year.  We have a mix of PC software and Mini 
> computer software.  Some things are better to do on the PC and others 
> are better done on the mainframe.  Our business systems, which are 
> my babies work well on the HP3000 and we have no plans to convert 
> them to something "better" in the near future.  My users are very 
> happy and that's my job, to keep my users happy.
> 
> Georgia Miller, Systems Analyst
> Email: georgia_miller@gfps.k12.mt.us
> Great Falls Public Schools
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