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Here is a message I received from a friend: BRussell@edsmith.com wrote: > I was wondering if you could send out this information on the midrange list. > I am no longer a participant. I am sending this note to some of the > newsletters that I receive but I want to get the word out about these 2 > gotchas because I think there may be some other folks out there that get > taken by surprise as we were. We are finally fully back in business with > these 2 applications but Jeff, John and I look pretty harried about now! I'm > too old for these 3 a.m. quitting times! > > Here's the story: > > We have just gone through a particularly painful V5R1 upgrade on our > production system. We were caught unawares when the upgrade did not support > the AS/400 firewall (the hardware is no longer supported) nor did it support > Wireless Connection Services, the licensed program that supports our RF units > in our warehouse application. In our case, we are in an LPAR environment so > we were able to install the WCS on the second partition which was luckily > still at V4R5 and reconfigure our ccess point then using a generic signon > with automatic passthru, get our users back in business. In the case of our > firewall we ad to download one off of the internet and configure it for our > environment. We had run the V5R1 prep and not a word that either f these 2 > applications would not be supported. We were also OV customers and Facsimile > Support customers and we new that OV was gone (the prep warned us about > that) and the Integrated Fax Adapters were gone. We converted our Fax to the > ntegrated analogue modem prior to the upgrade so we knew about both of these > changes but the other two took us by surprise. I hope this note helps avoid > the same thing happening to someone else. > > Beverly R. Russell > E.D. Smith & Sons, Limited > 944 Hwy #8, Winona, ON L8E 5S3 > Phone: (905)643-1211 ext. 372 > Fax: (905)643-3328 > http://www.edsmith.com > Private and Confidential -- Leo Lefebvre Vice & Past President Toronto Users Group for Midrange Systems Visit our home page at <http://www.tug.ca> Ph: (416) 606-5960 --- Fx: (416) 495-0100 mailto:leo@tug.ca
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