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Message Posted: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 @ 15:51:21 GMT
| Subj: | | Re: NCR should allow fastexport delimiters |
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| From: | | Jorge LasHeras |
Thank you for your message, Sam. I understand the problem with customers who have non-TPA nodes running NCR UNIX, and use them to
perform client work. As you pointed out, the fact the OS has been discontinued makes it even more difficult to run other third party
tools in these nodes, as newer versions are available. This is an unfortunate situation, indeed. For those who suffer with the 2 GB
file size limit for load/unload utilities, and don't want to run under Windows 2000 in the future, or wait until then, we can only
suggest a couple of options. Of course you are already aware of these, and I think that perhaps our customers may find them
inconvenient or not cost effective: one suggestion could be to reconfigure the non-TPA node(s) to become TPA ones, and move the
client work to a different platform, perhaps it is not needed to buy a new one, but assign one which is already installed. Another
possibility would be to use named pipes to process files larger than 2 GB, now we have a Named Pipes Access Module which can be
restarted, but again, the files need to be read/written from/to a different platform. In both cases the customer will not take full
advantage of the BYNET bandwidth capabilities, as opposed to running in a non-TPA node.
About porting to Solaris: I understand this was only for Intel IA-64, but Sun seems to be reluctant to continue the development of
Solaris for Intel.
I completely agree with your comments about enhancements to support industry standard formats and better ways to pass large
amounts of data, including encryption and compression.
Again, thank you very much and best regards,
Jorge.
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