Re: IBM i 6.1 and 405CD

SSA INFOR used to have a fiscal year, where close to end of fiscal period
there was pressure to get more sales revenue to include in the fiscal
period, so the SSA INFOR sales people had more flexibility to accept a lower
price for the same stuff, so long as you nailed the deal before end fiscal.

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Al Mac
-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-bounces+macwheel99=wowway.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bpcs-l-bounces+macwheel99=wowway.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete
Helgren
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 5:01 PM
To: BPCS ERP System
Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] IBM i 6.1 and 405CD

Already talked to infor. The asking price is a bit too much in this
economy (says management...).

That is just the point. We own the source, the objects should be
observable or recompile to make it so (except for those 61 exceptions)
. There isn't anything inherent in IBM i 6.1 that would fundamentally
change the way the programs or DB would work. Just seems like it
should be relatively straightforward.

Just wondering if there was anyone like us running heavily customized,
not on support for a decade, 405CD. Sounds like nobody on the list has
made *that* jump. We still may try it. The box is an old 270.
Maintenance is going up, yada, yada, so we'd like to move to a new box,
but 6.1 is the lowest supported OS version for a newer box.

Thanks.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.asaap.com
www.opensource4i.com


On 12/3/2010 2:12 PM, Bill wrote:

On 12/03/10 7:41 AM, Pete Helgren wrote:

Has anyone on 405CD upgraded to IBM i 6.1? ANZOBJCVN shows BPCS has 61
objects that may have issues and none of them have source (which is
interesting). We were thinking about recompiling the objects that lacked
observability but we may have other issues. Just curious if anyone
successfully made the jump and if so, how it was accomplished.

Pete,

You will need to get in touch with Infor for pricing to obtain the
recompiled objects.

Bill