>Any hints as to a replacement? I am recommending WPS. As long as their functions are enough for your needs, installation and migration are a breeze.
Installation and rollout to three systems takes about 30 minutes (including download from their site). Migrating to WPS took me all of three weeks, and we are running all of our performance reporting - z/OS, z/VM and zLinnux - on WPS. It was more of a problem of making sure that all jobs touching the same data set are migrated at the same time to not loose data. Of course I did an evaluation first, and that revealed that WPS was missing a few functions in the graphics part. Since I had started evaluation early enough (about a year before migration), WPS had come through and provided all of the functions needed by us. During evaluation and migration, I migrated from WPS 2.3 to WPS 2.4 to WPS 2.5 (the current version). WPS support was outstanding even after my management had signed the contract. Not to mention that it is same-timezone support (or almost same timezone). I am very happy that now I don't have to code these statements anymore, most of which only needed to be coded in order to bypass abends in SAS including corrupted databases/SAS catalogs to the point of inusability that SAS simply refused to even debug properly, much less fix since version 6: goptions nopolygonclip nopclip nopolygonfill; option nogwindow; Not to mention that now I don't have to code the lengthy and time-consuming %cpstart macro anymore (needed due to our SAS/GRAPH only working under ITRM, we we had not used functionally at all). I am also very happy that by migrating from SAS 8.2 ( I had already shuddered to migrate to 9.1.* and would have had a fit with SAS9.2, not to mention that migration from ITRM 2.6 to ITRM V3 is impossible without first going to 9.1.3 and 2.7 plus under V3 there were some severe ITRM changes in the way the pdbs are structured) I have neatly avoided all of the *NIX stuff and another mod9 for unneeded code. WPS consumes a bit more CPU than SAS, but cost per CPU second is *a lot* less. Next will be testing WPS under zLinux, which our WPS licence covers. Barbara Nitz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
