Re: BPCS on V4R3 -- MIDRANGE-L

I am not interested in the BPCS-L mailing list as its not in my 
day-to-day routines.

How much can I say without getting my butt in a sling?  I get up to 
Rochester for a week at a time on a somewhat annual basis.  They have 
a benchmark center next to where I always went to.  In this benchmark 
center you can load your software and have it tested out for different 
loads, etc.  There are several plaques on the wall for various 
companies from around the world who have benchmarked their software 
and under what conditions.  I saw SSA's plaque.

I've heard that people in IBM's beta programs are not even allowed to 
mention to others that they are in IBM's beta program.  Something about 
signed confidentiality agreements.





DAsmussen@aol.com on 10/14/98 07:36:57 PM
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Subject:        Re: BPCS on V4R3

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
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>  
>  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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