Pay the 360 bucks, tell your Boss it probably cost more in his time and
yours even questioning it.

However you can tell him that TurboImage detail datasets do have dynamic
capacity expansion, if you turn it on.

That would just leave you needing the Adager Jobs to keep an eye on the
Masters.

But yes your boss is correct, it is one of the signs that TurboImage is
getting a bit long in the tooth. But it ain't broken.

Not paying the $360 bucks is like having a reliable car, but risking
letting it grind to halt because you couldn't ever be bothered to buy
oil for it.

Alan


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>Eric Jack wrote:
>> We just received our maintenance renewal for Adager. No big deal...
>> only $360. But the Director of IS questioned me when signing off on
>> it if there was anything else we could be using. His primary gripe is
>> why do we have a $.3M system that can't even resize its own database
>> files.
>>
>> Right now, I run Adager every night as a job which checks for
>> datasets that need to be increased in size. It works fine, but it's
>> far from an "automated" solution. Sure it's automated in the fact
>> that I have it running as a job, but I still had to create that job
>> and set up all the file sizes to begin with. And if anything changes
>> in the structure, I need to update that job.
>>
>> My boss says that a "real" database has dynamic file sizes, and you
>> don't need to resize a file when it fills up. Hence, he feels that
>> Image is not a database at all, but a flat file that pretends to be a
>> database. And unless I'm mistaken, this whole problem is indeed an
>> MPE/Image issue, and not MANMAN.
>>
>> Input? Comments?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Eric Jack
>> Systems Administrator
>>
>> Thales Broadcast & Multimedia, Inc.
>> 104 Feeding Hills Road
>> Southwick MA 01077
>>
>> Tel: (413) 998-1426
>> Fax: (413) 998-2426
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>> Web: www.thales-bm.com
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