Lets me rephrase the entire problem again.

Company expand so fast that the IT infrastructure is not fast enough to cater high volume of traffic; the initial design is not scalable. The number of new branch offices setup caused the company pay a high price in the leased line communication.
Salesman and management staffs dial into company networks via 56K modem to access the database server and update the sale order. All the branch offices access the internet via HQ and download email via the external POP3 email server.
Plan to revamp their IT infrastructure and reduce the leased line access cost. Here are some of the feedbacks consolidated from the various country managers and local salesman.
1) The email downloading and sending is very slow. They receive a lot of spam email this caused their individual mailbox quota use up very fast.
2) The sales and marketing departments need to access the internet to search for latest news and market trends. But the internet speed is very slow. These people are irritated by spywares and popup often.
3) The File transfer and Database access is very slow even in the local area networks.

I decided to put the real network cum equipment diagram of my current company as I believe this will at least give INSIGHT in solving the problem.

Please visit the website http://www.hgym.photosite.com
for the diagrams which are network diagram and equipment diagram.

Now I plan to improve the IT infrastructure to cater for future expansion up to 10 countries. SAP will be implement to automate the overall company operation. Also expect 3rd party to access their server to submit and view sale order.

I also plan to redesign the network so that it is high available, scalable and secure.

Any suggestion and opinion? What is your comment after looking at my network and its insfrastructure (from the diagrams on http://www.hgym.photosite.com )
Any improving needed?

My email is hunkgym@yahoo.com Of course you can reply here, preferable :>

Thanks again for your opinion!! Thank You!!

For Example:
I attempt to APPLY SYSMOD1,SYSMOD2,SYSMOD3,SYSMOD4
into target library SYS1.LIB
the library reached 100% percent utilization after applying SYSMOD3, and compress didn’t help.
What happens to SYSMOD1 and SYSMOD2?

1. Documentation says to check the CD to make sure that it works. I put the CD in my CD drive at my local PC and browsed through the files. There seemed to be no problems with the CD, however, is there another process I am supposed to do? Am I supposed to load the CD on the AS400 Optical Drive and check it from there, or is what I have already done enough?

2. I have been researching IBM?s support sight for PSP (Preventive Service Planning) reports. I have found these reports, which there are about 20 to 21 different reports containing different information. Right now I am trying to decipher through all the information in these reports to determine which ones I need and which ones I do not need. I hear people in the industry say look at the HIPER PSP report and the cumulative PTF reports to order the PTFs listed on these reports. Do you have any experience with viewing these reports and how do you determine which PTFs to download, or do you just wait for the next cumulative package of PTFs to come out? If you wait on the next cumulative PTF package, how do you determine when to order it and how do you order it? I assume you put in the command SNDPTFORD and supply the PTF identifier for the package. Is there something else?

3. When you receive the CD from IBM containing the cumulative package of PTFs, how do obtain the cover letters off of the CD for the PTFs? I have read some documentation that says you should view the cover letters of the PTFs for special instructions before installing the PTFs.

4. On the PSP reports on the IBM website, it gives the current cumulative package number of C5102530. It says that cume package C5032530 began shipping in April. How do I determine which cume package I have on my CD? The cover of the CD says C6069150_01. Is this the cume package that I have received?

By the way, I am on V5R3 in case anyone needs to know.

If there are any other tips or pitfalls to look out for I would appreciate the help.

Thanks.

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Is there anything else that can be used?