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Rob,

We downloaded the PTFs at a couple of customers already, and you
would be amazed at the vendors who came up with issues. At this point, I
think it is too early to be critical of any, but some showed up with some
pretty significant issues. Unsupported MI programs (or was it system state
programs), lots with no observability but compiled prior to V5R1. We found
a few programs on some customer machines compiled on V2R1. I think part of
this is also some vendors used to compile to a lower release so they could
then have one version they could send out to anyone without worrying about
release compatibility. If they left their observability in, them there
isn't a problem. But remember, back then we were all concerned with Disk
space, and people removed observability to save disk space. Now, disk is
cheap.

I would say this is another good test of your vendor's
responsiveness and customer service on how quickly they resolve this. One
issue maybe for those customers who have dropped maintenance on a product,
and now that product has issues with its programs migrating to V6R1. What
does the customer do? What will the vendor do?

This brings up another topic of keeping releases up to date, and I
see this so many times at shops who have the attitude well its working, why
should I upgrade.

Applying an old Chinese proverb to the system i.

V6R1 -> May you live in interesting times :)

Pete



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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 4:25 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Statement of readiness for V6R1

Any vendors issuing "Statements of readiness for V6R1" yet? Granted, I
would be happy with a caveat that basically says something to the effect
of "... this statement should only be construed to mean that all of our
currently supported versions, with the appropriate service packs (and
these are...), have been determined to comply with ANZOBJCVN as per
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4293.html . This statement
should not be construed to mean that there may not be other issues with
V6R1 that may need IBM's attention on ptf's, or some tweaking on our part
to comply with new features or requirements."


Rob Berendt

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