Re: BPCS on V4R3 -- MIDRANGE-L

You know, that is a REAL good point Dean. WHY don't they do that ??? !!!

MAYBE with the ex-IBM folks flooding in there and de-Coveying the place, they 
will
start to get theit act together.

REALLY FUNNY side-note...

My wife is going to have a garage sale tomorrow and I was caring one of our
daughters desks out to add to the sale (one they don't use anymore). I took the
drawers out to check for "stuff" behind the drawers and guess what I found ?

A USER VISION mouse pad - probably the most functional part of that ill-fated
product <BG> !!!

Chuck

DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:

> Rob,
>
> (BTW, noticed that Helen and Chris are signed up for BPCS-L, but not yourself
> -- interested?)
>
> In a message dated 98-10-14 13:44:57 EDT, you write:
>
> > I am not sure if we got the official blessing.  I don't know what
> >  hoops we had to jump through to get things working.  I was not on
> >  the team that actually did this.  SSA has always been good to us.
> >  They've had to rush rewrites out to us in the past.  We were their
> >  first customer that put their software on a model with a character
> >  in the model - SSA had to modify BPCS security patch.  At Dekko we
> >  tend to stay on the bleeding edge in some respects.  We are running
> >  many versions.  We are in a holding pattern on 4.05CD.  We tend not
> >  to upgrade to stuff that we know will need modifications and they
> >  won't let us use the tools.
>
> Yet another "Errrr" for SSA.  I once worked for a _small_ company that had a
> small division (six employees) that sold system management tools (a la
> "Robot") that traveled to Rochester for pre-release testing of their products
> when a new OS was soon to be announced.  Yet, SSA (the number 5 ERP vendor the
> last time I checked) can't do the same?  AFAIK, SSA _STILL_ doesn't
> "officially" support RISC or security level 40.  What's up with that?
>
> >
> >
> >  CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET on 10/14/98 11:07:01 AM
> >  Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
> >  To:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
> >  cc:
> >
> >  Subject:     Re: AS/400 V4R2-R1 "downgrade"
> >
> >  Did you folks just go ahead and try this or did SSA give you their blessing
> ?
> >
> >
> >  My previous employer has been told different stories. The last being that
> > they would NOT support our current version of BPCS on
> >  V4R2 or V4R3 (I think depening on which day you spoke to them). I ran into
> > the SAME thing when we moved from CISC to RISC several
> >  years back. APPARENTLY we were one of the early ones to do this and I can't
> > BELIEVE the rigamaroll (sp ?) that we had to go
> >  through. We EVENTUALLY got what we needed but the "alliance partners"
> seemed
> > to be more on the ball than SSA...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>
> "If you want a place in the sun, you'll have to put up with a few blisters."
> -- Abigail Van Buren
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