[Talk] Running out of space/time/room

[HTaylor]

I have a problem and I'm wondering if anyone out there has faced this, and if so, what your response was. We run a number of BWS scripts against our McKesson STAR system. Now, as far as I have been able to determine, STAR will not allow multiple connections to the same session to run concurrently - a single session ties up the port for that IP (and they've recently implemented an enhancement that prevents using dynamic ports). This means that we're running into a problem with not having enough time in each day to run all of the scripts that we want to run (some of these take 3-6 hours each). Clearly we can get more machines to run these on, but that means spending money, both for the PCs and for the runtime licenses of the software. I was wondering if someone had come upon another way to handle this. Perhaps some way to virtualize the STAR sessions, or run in multiple "spaces" or something. I don't know, because my expertise doesn't run to that side of things, but I thought I'd throw it out there and see what comes back.

Henry Taylor
Technical Analyst II
Lutheran Health Network
Ph. (260) 425-3914