RE: Websphere Groups

I have found on occasion that with Websphere, Websphere Portal, and HTTP
admin that latest is not always the greatest.  It's a fuzzy area and
I've not been getting consistent answers.  I have asked IBM to do a
compatability and tested matrix between OS/400, Cums, WAS groups, WPS
groups, and software versions.   We will see what we get - it's more
complex but we need something like we have with Domino.

We recently had some questions about a problem we were seeing with
Portal and I did get some push back because the indication was that
Portal 5.1.0.1 had not been tested on WAS 6.0.2.15.  It wasn't that we
should have been more current with Portal but that we would have been
better at 6.0.2.5. This was not the first time where we have had
questions about actually being too current.  You will also notice a line
or two in the WAS group ptf documentation that indicates that this
version of WAS was tested with Cum level whatever and should work with
it or later.  So, evidently the WAS people are doing some testing in
coordination with cums but not for each and every cum.

I will say that I am finding more reasons to update WAS at faster
intervals then I am with other application environments, including
Domino.  We will implement a new function and it doesn't work or work
right.  We investigate and we find that there is a fix in the WAS group.
That is somewhat routine.  We never have that problem with our other
environments.

David is correct.  While there is new functionality in PTF's it's not a
high rate that I have been able to determine.  For me lately it seems to
be in the HTTP group than in the WAS area (http admin functionality).
Not scientific by any stretch.

So, I see both sides.  I would just make them qualify the reasons behind
the request.

Michael Crump
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:47 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Websphere Groups

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Web moves, well, at the speed of the web.  Or, as the ads used to say

"at 

the speed of business".  New development methods and techniques are

being 

implemented all the time.  While traditional development was basically

grinding out more stuff, just nothing that was involving new

techniques, 

objects in jar files, etc.  It is a more fluid environment.

Yeah, but PTF's rarely implement major new functionality (yes, I know
they do on occasion).

david