RE: V7R2 media

These guys are in such a niche market that aside from bruising our normal
sensibilities I'm not sure it matters to most of their customer set. I've
learned to mutter under my breath at them and move on. Since the software
vendor does 80% of the maintenance (application and OS) for their customers
it's up to them to support what the put out there. They do it very badly
but again that's more a value statement than anything.

In the end it's their business and they have to run it. I've heard enough
about CGC.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 6:34 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: V7R2 media

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow, right Paul?


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From: "Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/02/2016 06:03 PM
Subject: RE: V7R2 media
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



What a hoot! CGC has just revealed that they won't be forcing their
customers to upgrade after all.

Somebody pointed them to this chart and told them he wasn't going to buy
new
hardware.

http://m.ibm.com/http/www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssm1platformibm

i

I'm picturing Gilda Radner in her Emily Litella role on Saturday Night
Live
- "Never Mind"

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Paul
Nelson
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 9:31 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: V7R2 media

How does one obtain the physical media for V7R2?

Computer Guidance Corporation (a subsidiary of Explorer Software) has
outdone themselves again. They announced that they are forcing customers
to
upgrade, and then gave their customers a list of files to download, unzip,
and ftp.

One of those customers spent over 30 hours with the downloads of the OS,
including junk they don't need.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx