Re: Officevision and V5R1

Don:

Officevision OV/400 is history according to IBM.  They want us to go to Domino 
with all it nifty features.  Of course, we all know that OV/400 is
pretty clunky.  It is so buggy that IBM keeps issuing ptfs to fix them which of 
course unfixes something else which needs a fix...is this the circle
you are talking about :-) But some of us are addicted ;-)

The following is also from an IBM source.... read on ...
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Over two years ago, IBM announced that support for OV/400 would terminate on 
May 31, 2001.  Initially, V4R4 was to be the last supported release and
then support for V4R5 was accepted, although the termination date remained 
constant.  Numerous customers and Business Partners have begun to ask if
there is any chance that this maybe extended in terms of date or version or 
release.  The answer is absolutely NO in terms of version or release.
The next OS version will comprise some significant code base changes that will 
make some portion of OV/400 in-operative.  There is no test plan to
determine what might work and what might not.  As many of you know, a great 
deal of the code base for OV/400 is contained within OS/400 so the
likelihood that the function that you desire will work is very suspect.  A 
decision was made that the next release of OS/400 would actually de-install
the OV/400 code in order to protect the supported portions of OS/400.  
Customers will have the capability to re-install but they do so on their own.

We highly encourage all OV/400 installed customers to establish a migration 
plan to move their workloads to Domino on the iSeries and to use some of
the Business Partner solutions that were created to mirror some of the unique 
OV/400 functions.  Customers who have mail and calendaring needs should
move to "Domino for AS/400".  This gives them an opportunity to building modern 
groupware, internet-enabled applications.  However, customers must
consider the AS/400 line of business applications they have that use 
OfficeVision/400 APIs.  In many cases, they may not even know that they are 
using
OfficeVision/400 APIs.  They need to identify in what ways they depend on 
OfficeVision/400.  Customers also need to select the best option to replace
functions using OfficeVision/400 services.  This may be to redesign the 
application to become a partly Domino application, to change the AS/400
program to call Domino APIs, or to use an add-on product to Domino.  It also 
may be using other AS/400 available functions or applications.  Read the
redbook "How to Replace OfficeVision/400 in Your Applications: Looking at 
Domino for AS/400 and AS/400 Alternatives, SG24-5406-00"  (available at
"http://www.redbooks.ibm.com") to learn about the alternatives that are 
available.

The following web sites are very good:

http://www.dominodotoffice.com (good overall information - FAQs and downloads 
with duplication of what is in the redbook- but also information on
business partners in different areas of the world who have expertise in helping 
OV users to migrate to alternatives.  Links to the three alternative
providers listed below are on this web site)

http://www.bluenotes.com (provide a datatext merge solution based on Lotus 
notes)

http://www.inventivedesigners.com (provides "DTM for AS/400e Servers"
which offers a 5250 wordprocessing and data/text merge function based on XML 
architecture.  Integration into Lotus Domino environments is supported
with a graphical editor and integration with Domino groupware and workflow 
functions.  Additionally, MS Word can be used as graphical editor.
Existing OV/400 documents can be reused and existing AS/400 applications 
continue to run with little or no modifications.)

http://www.aia.nl (provide a data-text merge function based on client editors)

> Dumb question:  Did anyone say why IBM just didn't leave OV/400 ALONE or
> just give you a "do you want to leave ov/400 on the box at your own
> risk(Y/N)" kinduva question???
>
> This uninstall/reinstall circle-xxxx just seems a bit annoying for the
> dorks that are really wanting to hold on to ov/400....
>
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Dave Mahadevan wrote:
>
> > Folks:
> >
> > Any of you thinking of upgrading to V5R1 and keeping office vision,
> > please follow the steps outlined by an IBM guru here.  I got this from a
> > vendor.
> >
>

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Thank You.

Regards

Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net


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