Re: BPCS on V4R3

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Frankly I think the "purge" was long overdue.  There were a number of 
people there who no longer cared about customer concerns and wanted to 
push their own agendas.  We were the third customer BPCS ever had and 
Roger Covey wrote one of the modules on our System 34 over the weekend.





CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET on 10/14/98 04:46:54 PM
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Subject:        Re: BPCS on V4R3

Interesting - where I WAS, can recount HORROR stories dealing with them. Not to 
say that they were ALWAYS bad - if you could get to
the GOOD people (HOPEFULLY they are still there after the "purge"...)

Rob Berendt wrote:

> 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.
>
> CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET on 10/14/98 11:07:01 AM
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> Subject:        Re: AS/400 V4R2-R1 "downgrade"
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> 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...
>
> Rob Berendt wrote:
>
> > We have a V4R3 machine as our development machine.  We are running multiple 
>versions of BPCS on it just fine.
> >
> > CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET on 10/14/98 12:12:41 AM
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> > Subject:        Re: AS/400 V4R2-R1 "downgrade"
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> > There s/w vendor wouldn't be Some Stupid A%#wipe, would it ;-)
> >
> > grnhornt@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > > Has anybody tried de-upgrading an AS/400 OS release lately?  We have a 
>customer that wants to move a system from V4R2 back to
> > > V4R1 so their secondary system matches that OS/400 release of their 
>production system which can't be upgraded right now.
> > > (Their s/w vendor doesn't support V4R3, and they don't want to upgrade 
>twice in rapid succession).
> > >
> > > This process isn't documented anywhere that I can find (no surprise), so 
>right now I'm planning a relatively manual approach
> > > of scratching the system, loading the OS and licensed programs, then 
>restoring the configuration and user libraries and
> > > manually updating things like TCP/IP configuration and system values.
> > >
> > > Is there a better way that I can feel comfortable with?
> > >
> > > Erik Knudson
> > > Symatrix Technology
> > > Portland, OR
> > >
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