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<h1 class="topictitle1">Spiffy organization and system profile</h1>
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<div><p>Spiffy Corporation is a fictional national product distributor
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that sells and services automobiles, among other products, to retail customers
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through a network of regional offices and local dealerships.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>Given the high competitiveness of today's automobile
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industry, the success of an operation like the Spiffy Corporation depends
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on high-quality servicing and timely delivery of spare parts to the customer.
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To meet this competition, Spiffy has established a vast service network incorporated
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within its dealership organization.</p>
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<p>The dealership organization is headed
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by a central vehicle distributor located in Chicago, Illinois. There are several
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regional distribution centers across North America. Two of these are located
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in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Kansas City, Missouri. These centers minimize
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the distribution costs of vehicles and spare parts by setting up regional
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inventories. The Minneapolis regional center serves approximately 15 dealerships
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while the Kansas City center serves as many as 30 dealerships.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>The figure here illustrates a system organization chart for Spiffy
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Corporation.</p>
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<div class="example"> <div class="fignone" id="rbal1spiffyorg__rbal1spif1"><a name="rbal1spiffyorg__rbal1spif1"><!-- --></a><span class="figcap">Figure 1. The Spiffy Corporation system organization</span><br /><img src="rv2w734.gif" alt="Spiffy Corporation System Organization" /><br /></div>
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<div class="section"><p>Spiffy is in the process of building up a nationwide integrated
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telecommunications network. For the automobile division they are setting up
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a network of <span class="keyword">iSeries™ server</span>s for
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the regional distributions centers and the dealerships. These are connected
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to an S/390<sup>®</sup> at
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the central vehicle distributor. This network is considered a vital business
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asset for maintaining the competitive edge.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>The central distributor runs DB2 Universal Database™ for z/OS<sup>®</sup> on
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its S/390 with
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relevant decision support software. This system is used because of the large
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amounts of data that must be handled at any one time in a variety of application
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programs. The central vehicle distributor system is not dedicated to automobile
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division data processing. It must handle work and processes for the corporation
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that do not yet operate in a distributed database environment. The regional
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centers are running <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> systems.
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They use APPC/APPN with SNADS and 5250 Display Station Pass-through using
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an SDLC protocol.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>All of the dealerships use <span class="keyword">iSeries server</span>s
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that vary in size. These systems are connected to the regional office using
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SDLC protocol. The largest dealerships have a part time programmer and a system
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operator to tend to the data processing functioning of the enterprise. Most
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of the installations do not employ anyone with programming expertise and some
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of the smaller locations do not employ anyone with more than a very general
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knowledge of computers.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbal1spifx1.htm" title="The Spiffy Corporation is used in several IBM manuals to describe distributed relational database support. In this topic collection, this fictional company has been changed somewhat to illustrate iSeries server support for DRDA in an iSeries server network.">Example: Spiffy Corporation distributed relational database</a></div>
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<div class="relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br />
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<div><a href="rbal1spiffybus.htm" title="The Spiffy Corporation automobile division has business practices that are automated in this distributed relational database environment.">Business processes of the Spiffy Corporation Automobile Service</a></div>
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<div><a href="rbal1spiffyadm.htm" title="Each dealership manages its data processing resources and procedures as a stand-alone enterprise. Spiffy Corporation requires that each dealership have one or more iSeries servers and that those servers must be available to the network at certain times. However, the size of the server and the number of business processes that are automated on it are determined by each dealership's needs and the resources available to it.">Distributed relational database administration for the Spiffy Corporation</a></div>
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