Who are you???
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>We are about to implement a Data Repository at our company to offload the
>adhoc reporting burden from our HP3000. Our research has discovered many
>ways to extract the data from the Turboimage database for export to other
>platforms. One that is rather inexpensive (comes with Image) is image logging.
>Our manager is concerned with the performance hit on the production processor
>from past stories under older operating systems. Can anyone give me your
>real life account of the impact on the system? We simply want a method to
>capture the transactions without resorting to very expensive third party
>software (some company that begins with the letter 'Q').
>
>Our current productoin machine is an HP3000/999-100 with 512Mb of memory
>and running MPE/iX 5.0 Powerpatch 3. We would like to move to 5.5 this
>fall after a powerpatch comes out. The network addressable printers is the
>big push for this.
>
>
Before anybody can answer your question, we need to know how busy your current
system is.  I have seen estimates for Image logging around 8 percent but I
haven't
actually observed it that high on an MPE/iX system.  That estimate may be a
residual from the classic days.
 
Actually, it should be easy to just try it.  Before you do, make sure that
your obtain
a "before" performance picture.
 
Bill
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