Re: Cume causes purchase or hardware was: CL Variable being changed by called CL program

> >From what I'm told, the cume package caused the software that controlled
> our
> Symbol brand scanners to cease communicating with the iSeries.

Do you have any documentation or confirmation from IBM
this is true? or was it the vendor "selling you something"?
The only way I can imagine a ptf changing something like this
is if the vendor was doing something on an unsupported interface
(and i can't imagine what that would be.
jim
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Subject: Re: Cume causes purchase or hardware was: CL Variable being changed
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> First I've heard of that with a ptf.  Now, there was a well documented
> upgrade years ago in which the 'Wireless' product was dropped upon
> upgrading to a certain release of OS.  That involved upgrading a lot of
> hardware on our part.
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> Rob Berendt
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> >From what I'm told, the cume package caused the software that controlled
> our
> Symbol brand scanners to cease communicating with the iSeries.
> Interestingly, the Teklogix (spelling?) continued to function properly. We
> had to purchase new controllers and software and convert from SNA to IP
> based communication with the scanners.  This apparently ran into an amount
> of money approaching the purchase price of a nice car.
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> Chances are this potential problem was documented somewhere in the cover
> letters for the cume but I didn't ask whether anyone read it.
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> Donald R. Fisher, III
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> I'd like to hear the details on this...
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> >>>the last cume we applied cost us many thousands of dollars in new
> hardware (long story).
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