Cognos coversion from mainframe to PC

[Richard Witkopp]

Uh oh, here comes the flood of old codger war stories.
We had oltp and screen generators on DEC pdp-8's before
Vaxen were even born, and got similar reactions from IBM
and CDC mainframers.

> 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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