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Top IBM i Client Projects
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Application Development 8 OUT OF THE TOP 10 C C ++ C# TIOBE index Nov’15 http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
GNU Compiler Collection – the Swiss army knife of compilers Environment that the ‘ open source developer ’ uses • Industry standard vs the XLC currently on IBM i • Ability to get any OS packaged running on IBM i • without IBM intervention Easy include OS add-on and plugins for recent OS • additions
Access & Management ACS ARE BRMS vHMC
FLASH - reduce wait time & improve customer experience Cache is becoming the new memory. Memory is the new disk. Disk is being replaced by flash. 24
Thoughts After My POWER8 Upgrade Think the surface of Mercury hot Nightly backups reduced from 3h to 1h15min. Long-running jobs ~30 minutes now complete in six. Ridiculously fast response times for web interfaces. IPL went from about twelve minutes to five. http://www.mcpressonline.com/commentary/in-the-wheelhouse-thoughts-after-my-power8-upgrade.html
Flash i Performance (FLiP) projections
FLiP projections vs reality For job X projected a runtime improvement from 3,152 to 457 sec. In reality it was 417 sec For job Y projected a runtime improvement from 1,562 to 596 sec. In reality it was 596 sec In reality response time went from (ms) Reads Writes X : 4.86 to 0.36 2.09 to 0.91 Y : 5.39 to 0.31 4.35 to 4.20
“With the IBM i running on IBM POWER8 servers EUR 100,000 saved and IBM FlashSystem storage, we reduced the in annual costs helps the company runtime of certain, complex scheduling and planning price its products competitively tasks in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization by up to 90 percent. 5x faster This enables us, for example, to modify production storage performance accelerates data schedules to accommodate incoming customer orders access, supporting better-informed within just 20 minutes – dramatically improving decision-making business agility.”
POWER8 and Flash storage , faster access to the product data. “ Response times have been improved by 56% , helping to improve productivity for our staff.” “ 55% faster processing of background tasks , and database processing alone was accelerated by up to 70%.“ “a significant increase in Java performance speeds up all our SAP applications noticeably from the point of view of the end users.”
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