'AIX' Vs ' windows'

Hi Guru's
we are planning to move our essbase cube from windows 2003 to aix machine. i have few questions in my mind.
If anybody can help then that will be great
what challenge do we face performance wise .
is performance of hyperion better in AIX then windows?
do we have to make any changes in the existing cube and maxl scripts if we moved to AIX
we are using few batch scripts that need to be converted to shall script if we moved to AIX
Is installation of Hyperion easier in AIX?
we are using version 9.3.1
if you can provide with some document link for this then that will be great
thank you

Hello -
Just going by my experience here...yours/others case may difer..
1. We didn't face any challange performance wise. We had to reboot the windows every
2-4 weeks but with aix we didn't have that issue.
2. We didn't modify the maxls, except for the server name peice. The rest of the
maxls were mostly as is.
3. All the bats and cmds script which call the maxls had to converted to the shell script.
4. We had to use the chron in AIX to do the schduling.
5. As the lower case and upper case will mater in AIX so it will be good idea to
clean up the names your apps/databases and all the artifacts and use a standard.
We had a little issue there as we had a mix of upper,lower case letters for the names
of the artifacts.
Regards

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>
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