Re: IBM Fax support for iSeries

I'm going to check into the details. My memory from 2 years ago is kind of 
fuzzy.

What if it turns out that our 570 hardware choices necessitated dropping IBM's 
fax product? Reading between the lines what then what does this say? It's been 
my experience that when IBM suddenly stops making improvements, or going 
all-out to make something work on 98% of the hardware combinations, it doesn't 
bode well for that product's future.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Franz 
  To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:04 PM
  Subject: Re: IBM Fax support for iSeries


  Peter,
  There certainly were hardware combinations not supported after v5r2 as 
  listed
  in the links Rob provided, and it is
  clear IBM did not give us a nice, neat chart to explain it. The problem IBM 
  has
  is clearly identifying what can, cannot run on each type of 7xx, 8xx,5xx and 
  whatever
  else can run V5r3 & 4, plus IBM shipping product labelled v5r2 for a v5r3 & 
  4 OS.
  Still not an excuse for what the BP did... This has happened every time an 
  OS runs
  on diff types of platform hardware.
  jim franz

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Peter Levy" <plevy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:16 AM
  Subject: Re: IBM Fax support for iSeries


  > Rob,
  >
  > I'm very surprised to learn from these responses that 5798FAX can run on 
  > V5R4.
  >
  > When we upgraded from an 830 w/V5R2 to a partitioned 570 w/V5R3 our B.P. 
  > told us in no uncertain terms that the fax product wasn't going to be 
  > supported. We had originally purchased it to run on our old 830 intending 
  > to migrate from the RMTi fax product because that vendor had decided to 
  > stop supporting it. In the end we had to switch gears and convert to 
  > Quadrant's FastFax product instead.
  >
  > I read earlier in this thread that it's very hardware dependent, so I'd 
  > like to know what hardware it's supported on?
  >
  > Pete
  >  ----- Original Message ----- 
  >  From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
  >  To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
  >  Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:29 AM
  >  Subject: Re: IBM Fax support for iSeries
  >
  >
  >  Where do you get this information?  I am running 5798FAX on V5R4, fully
  >  supported.
  >
  >  Rob Berendt
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