Re: BPCS on V4R3

Rob,

(BTW, noticed that Helen and Chris are signed up for BPCS-L, but not yourself
-- interested?)

In a message dated 98-10-14 13:44:57 EDT, you write:

> I am not sure if we got the official blessing.  I don't know what
>  hoops we had to jump through to get things working.  I was not on 
>  the team that actually did this.  SSA has always been good to us.  
>  They've had to rush rewrites out to us in the past.  We were their 
>  first customer that put their software on a model with a character 
>  in the model - SSA had to modify BPCS security patch.  At Dekko we 
>  tend to stay on the bleeding edge in some respects.  We are running 
>  many versions.  We are in a holding pattern on 4.05CD.  We tend not 
>  to upgrade to stuff that we know will need modifications and they 
>  won't let us use the tools.

Yet another "Errrr" for SSA.  I once worked for a _small_ company that had a
small division (six employees) that sold system management tools (a la
"Robot") that traveled to Rochester for pre-release testing of their products
when a new OS was soon to be announced.  Yet, SSA (the number 5 ERP vendor the
last time I checked) can't do the same?  AFAIK, SSA _STILL_ doesn't
"officially" support RISC or security level 40.  What's up with that?

>  
>  
>  CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET on 10/14/98 11:07:01 AM
>  Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
>  To:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
>  cc:   
>  
>  Subject:     Re: AS/400 V4R2-R1 "downgrade"
>  
>  Did you folks just go ahead and try this or did SSA give you their blessing
?
> 
>  
>  My previous employer has been told different stories. The last being that 
> they would NOT support our current version of BPCS on
>  V4R2 or V4R3 (I think depening on which day you spoke to them). I ran into 
> the SAME thing when we moved from CISC to RISC several
>  years back. APPARENTLY we were one of the early ones to do this and I can't
> BELIEVE the rigamaroll (sp ?) that we had to go
>  through. We EVENTUALLY got what we needed but the "alliance partners"
seemed 
> to be more on the ball than SSA...

Cheers,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"If you want a place in the sun, you'll have to put up with a few blisters."
-- Abigail Van Buren
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