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MIMIX [EOL] pros and cons

Vendor: IBM

4.4 out of 5

21 reviews
100% willing to recommend

MIMIX [EOL] Pros review quotes

IT Administrator at a museum or institution with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 20, 2014

In case we have an emergency or a sudden issue on the production system, we can put our point of sale terminals in local mode for 1 hour, switch over to the backup system, verify that all is running OK, then the POS systems can reconnect, and our users can sign on again and continue working.

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iSeries Power 7 Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 9, 2015

Provides high degree of comfort regarding High Availability (HA).

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iSeries System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Aug 24, 2017

For data replication purposes, we would migrate users from the live box to the backup machine in a matter of minutes, which was much quicker for the end user and required no restore from tapes.

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IT & Comm Infrastructure Operations at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Jul 20, 2015

Apart from the fact that we are assured high availability and disaster recovery, we use this product for different purposes as well.

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AS400 (iSeries) Senior System Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 24, 2017

It allowed us to have a stable, low maintenance, worry free disaster recovery solution that we can present to our management and our clients.

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Sr. Technical Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Jul 22, 2015

By implementing remote journals, we have put the load on the target system as opposed to the source.

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Systems iSeries & HA administrator at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 24, 2017

No system downtime High Availability (HA).

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Server Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 29, 2015

Customer Service: Excellent; their team is very knowledgeable and responsive.

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Sr. System Mngt Engineer - System Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 5, 2015

We were able to perform major system maintenance on our production system after performing a switch or production role swap.

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Independent IT Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 9, 2015

It has helped us cut down process time and manpower.

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MIMIX [EOL] Cons review quotes

IT Administrator at a museum or institution with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 20, 2014

Replication of the IBM i spooled files and files on the IFS system (Windows-like environment). About 1/2 the time, we have to nudge the system a bit to get the file(s) over.

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iSeries Power 7 Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 9, 2015

The systems overheads need improvement.

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iSeries System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Aug 24, 2017

The product dashboard that comes with the product could use some work.

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IT & Comm Infrastructure Operations at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Jul 20, 2015

I think that there should be a converged effort with IBM for faster remote journal entry reads when the remote journal is in "fire mode".

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AS400 (iSeries) Senior System Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 24, 2017

The monitoring part of MIMIX - VSP (Vision Solutions Portal) needs some improvements.

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Sr. Technical Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Jul 22, 2015

Customer support is good but they do try to squeeze out those service dollars.

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Systems iSeries & HA administrator at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 24, 2017

Replication errors need to be resolved.

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Server Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 29, 2015

Monitoring tools can be improved but are very useful already.

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Sr. System Mngt Engineer - System Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 5, 2015

OS version compatibility needs work.

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Independent IT Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 9, 2015

The version we're using is not portal ready.

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