I am going to get back to timesharing the AS/400s (iSeries, i5, power i).
I got ride of the T1 one with a full class C of IP addresses and am trying to get by with 5 usable IP address on DSL. I am using routers to route different ports from public IP addresses to privite IP addresses behind them. This allows me to hook up a few more more host like they are on the Internet with their own addresses. The DSL has been a lot better then I thought it might be, I have not had an outage yet, so I am not sure how long it will take them to fix an outage. I am sure it will be longer then on a T1.
I am changing the length of time you need to purchase to use the service. It is going to be a year. The reason I am doing this is because updating the records every month. More because I don't like to do it then the amount of time it really took to do it. And I do not make any money off of doing this. As most companies who try doing AS400 timesharing realize and quit offering it before very long.
I will also restrict what I load onto the systems. I used to be pretty flexible and install anything that was licensed in such away I could. But it ends up leaving all kinds of objects on the systems, which I have to go through and get rid of after a while.
Backup will be another area I will be changing. It will be more the responsibility of the users. Or I will do it electronically instead of on tape, which ware out and are slow compared to disk.
