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To look up the program that you want to call from your iSeries server.

Our benchmark testing was performed on various iSeries servers, but most of the findings can be applied to other platforms as well.

Now we are ready to create a service component that will invoke our iSeries Web Service.

In effect, pSeries has been able to leverage some of the iSeries technology that was initially derived from the zSeries systems.

Two Domino partitions were configured for the iSeries environment, with data points up to and including 4000 users.

The maximum number of partitions on an iSeries system is 32 which can be realized with four or more processors.

One of the existing applications is written in RPG and runs on an IBM iSeries system.

Linux for iSeries and pSeries is in the unique position as a development environment of offering many different compilers.

Dave Johnson is currently a member of the iSeries System Performance area with a focus on Domino performance.

iSeries machines are often configured with an effective free memory pool size.

Linux can be installed in up to 31 partitions on many iSeries servers.

Linux distributions run in a secondary partition on iSeries and are given, at a minimum, their own processor resources and memory.

A more simple web service would be to execute commands (or a batch of commands) on iSeries using a web service command.

What is the best way for an RPG application running on iSeries to connect to a DataPower appliance?

IBM has announced a statement of direction to run AIX in a partition in a future iSeries release.

iSeries provides a virtual Linux console for each Linux partition through a unique mechanism.

Linux distributions on both iSeries and pSeries systems run in a logically partitioned environment (LPAR).

As noted earlier, each partition on iSeries is explicitly given its own processor and memory resources.

The iSeries and pSeries specific diagrams shown here illustrate the slightly different hypervisor structures.

Our plan is to merge these Office documents into the new iSeries boxes we are going to purchase.

The Network Server Description gives the iSeries machine a way to start and stop a guest partition and its associated Virtual LAN.

On the POWER-based servers, both pSeries and iSeries servers, you can run your Linux applications on enterprise-strength reliable servers.

Expand the iSeries icon for the system where you want to create the database file.

One undeniable advantage to deploying your application on Linux on iSeries, is the ability to consolidate several Linux servers.

Improved support for migrations, where the source and the iSeries machine are not accessible on the same network.

Many iSeries models support up to 31 Linux partitions.

Therefore, an iSeries database can hold multiple code pages, even ASCII code pages, depending on the specific code page.

In Domino 7, this limitation has been removed, and on iSeries we were able to run 18, 000 users in our test configuration.

iSeries and pSeries servers can use the VisualAge compilers from IBM, to generate well-optimized code for these systems.

Filtering of database objects is supported for optimal performance on iSeries and zSeries servers.

On DB2 UDB for iSeries, a code page can be specified per physical file or table within a database.

This article describes how to install and set up Linux as a guest operating system in an iSeries environment.

To know more about iSeries data conversions, visit the iSeries Information Center.

We will focus on the specifics of the iSeries install, including booting the installer and partitioning the storage.

This provides an optimal design time experience on remote servers, like iSeries and zSeries.

Domino 7 provides substantial performance benefits for iSeries environments.

We used multiple iSeries server models for the tests described in this article.

Can I run any Linux application that has been compiled on a pSeries server, on the iSeries platform?

Here, DB2USER is the user profile that was used to connect to the iSeries server.

When the Application Server gets ready, it calls the application, then submits the jobs to iSeries.

IBM databases on iSeries and zSeries servers can contain large amounts of data.

The iSeries server converts it to the CCSID 66535 and accesses the data in the DEPARTMENT table.

Most Linux applications written on pSeries platform will run unmodified on the iSeries platform.

There is not currently an equivalent stand-alone Linux capability on iSeries.

On iSeries, the IBM-supplied tables can be found in the QUSRSYS library.

command, and FTP the installation savf file over to the iSeries server into the above savf file.

Goes into more detail on installing Linux on iSeries machines.

By default, on iSeries, data is spread evenly across disk drives.

iSeries tables are stored in data physical files FILETYPE(*DATA), so you must use DDS and specify the CCSID that way.

Specify your iSeries password in the Password field.

Our shop has been running iSeries for most of the applications.

Our second iSeries test environment used an iSeries model 810 with two processors.

The DB2 Connect server converts it to code page 1208 (Unicode), then it sends it to the iSeries Server.

In summary, iSeries and pSeries systems have a lot in common in their support for Linux software in partitioned systems.

The console user accesses port 2301 on the primary iSeries partition via telnet.

Our first test environment used an iSeries model 570 with 14 processors, with abundant memory and disk resources.

The majority of current iSeries Linux customers use virtual disk, and this is expected to continue.

Expand the iSeries machine you are working with and check under the Databases section.

Listing 1 illustrates the Java code to invoke the iSeries program.

Check if port 8000 is already being used on the iSeries server.

In our first test, we used an iSeries model 570 with 14 processors, with abundant memory and disk resources.

The following two tables compare results obtained with 10, 000 simulated Notes users running on the iSeries model 570.

The future direction is for this driver to also support DB2 on iSeries.

For example, assume that Posts-R-Us uses a homegrown CRM system that runs on iSeries and is written in RPG.

This creates a service component that refers to your iSeries Web Service, as shown in Figure 8

Hints and tips for getting up and running with Linux for PowerPC on the iSeries platform

Hints and tips for working with the application server on iSeries and pSeries servers

The following table lists the configuration for our iSeries tests

The iSeries server uses code page 66535 and has a database with table DEPARTMENT defined as

Run the following commands on an iSeries server command line to change authority to