RE: last OS400 ver for M36?

I guess I just look at our systems - a development box stuck at V3R2 and several other boxes at V3R7 - and these things just keep going and going and going.  These will be replaced SOON(Yeah !!!), but for those companies who insist on staying with a product that IBM chooses to abandon, I guess I don't see any reason to get upset about being stuck on an old release of OS/400.  In my experience, by the time IBM drops support for a given release, that release is stable enough to run without problems for a long, long time.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

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-----Original Message-----
From:   Jerome Draper [SMTP:jdraper@trilosoft.com]
Sent:   Wednesday, July 25, 2001 7:41 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: last OS400 ver for M36?

That's the plan for now.
 
Jerry

Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Network and Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's, Windows, Linux, Sun, and AS/400
Representing Synapse, CLI, Nlynx, Perle, Lucent, 3Com and Others .....
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bale, Dan <mailto:D.Bale@handleman.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <mailto:MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:41 PM
Subject: RE: last OS400 ver for M36?




>what the heck are they supposed to do?

Um, why not just stay at V4R4?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com <mailto:D.Bale@Handleman.com>
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

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        -----Original Message-----
From:   Jerome Draper [SMTP:jdraper@trilosoft.com]
Sent:   Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:04 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: last OS400 ver for M36?

        Thanks.

        How many AS/S36 shops are there and what the heck are they supposed to do?
They could migrate to S36E to get to V4R5 but then S36E sunsets.  So then
what?

        Believe me.  These shops are not going to rewrite to native AS400 next week.
We are talking simple businesses that work fine as is.

        Joe Frank, senior architect of SSP, told me that you can teach a person to
run a S36 in one day and they can.  You can teach a person to run an AS400
in a week and they still can't do it.

        :-)




        Jerry




        Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Network and Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's, Windows, Linux,
Sun, and AS/400
Representing Synapse, CLI, Nlynx, Perle, Lucent, 3Com and Others .....
<http://www.trilosoft.com> - (415) 457-3431 - (415) 258-1658fax -
jdraper@trilosoft.com