Re: OS/400 V6R1 Cumulative PTFs

This might not be a popular opinion, but...

Whether or not you can get the media, I think you need to ask yourself
whether you are entitled to the PTFs or not.

Hopefully the machine you are applying them to is not making you money ofg
the back of the OS, in which case you really are (IMO) obligated to either
deal with the support costs or forgo the PTFs as they are provided as part
of the support contract you don't want to pay for.

Maybe you have some other machines, and maybe their are some other
mitigating factors, but I'd feel ethically challenged taking support for
my business but not paying for it.

Just my .02.



On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Shannon O'Donnell <
sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,



I have a used 520 that I was able to migrate to V6R1 before the support on
it ran out, but we did not think to order the cumulative PTFs or the
HIPERS, and all the Group PTFs while we still could under maintenance. We
had ordered V6R1 and then let it sit around for more than a year, well
after
maintenance was up, before we loaded it on that system.



We do not use this system very much anymore so there did not seem to be any
sense in paying $3K a year in maintenance for it at the time. Recently,
however, we wanted to test some software on it and realized that we need
to
apply all the PTFs, HIPERS and all the Group PTFs to do so. I checked
with our BP and it would cost us just under $5K to put the system back on
maintenance with IBM and that includes the penalty fee IBM forces on you
(big blue jerks). That's an outrageous fee for something we will only use
sporadically.



So before I give up entirely on using this box, I wanted to ask if there is
anyone out here who has all the latest (wouldn't even necessarily need to
be
the LATEST! As no ptfs were applied for V6R1) Cumulative PTFs, all the
Group
PTFs and all the HIPERS laying around on DVD/CD somewhere and could loan
them to us.



I would be glad to pay a reasonable fee and of course pay for shipping both
ways so I could get them back to you when we are done loading them.



Can anyone help me with this or is this just too far out there of a
request?



If you want, please feel free to contact me off-list.



Thanks!


Shannon O'Donnell

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