Re: Older versions of OS/400 as a si

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Dan,

I am really happy for you!  I am glad that you are upgrading.  I was hoping
that things worked out for you.  Seems like you're too good of a man to be
stuck behind.

There are so many things I've picked up along the way from those old OS's
that I'd hate to go back.  We had one division that stayed with V3R7 for
too long.  It was a real pain to support them when I would write a service
program which worked on machines except them.  Finally got them to upgrade.
Upgraded our development machine to a version which wouldn't compile down
to V3R7.  We keep all their source and they have no compiler.  (Yeah, I
know, we could have compiled down to V3R2.  Any news on when that little
function will go away?).

Where else but the 400 world do we support archaic versions of the
operating system?  Do you see upgrades for the legacy versions of Windows
2000 software?  'Hey I just got an upgrade for a DOS, or Win 3.1, version
of 123!'  Like that'll ever happen.



                                                                                
                                         
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Rob,

Sorry, couldn't wait for the survey to respond.

While your point that old 400's will be replaced by something non-400 has
some
validity, I would like counter that there are other valid points for
keeping
old 400's without upgrading.

Like rock-solid, can't-knock-'em-down stability.  I started here about a
month
ago and was asking the same type of questions, but mainly from a
professional
growth standpoint.  "Why do we have seven AS/400s running V3R2 and V3R7?"
"Why not?  They never fail.  We're well within capacity.  So what if IBM
withdrew support for V3?  What's gonna happen now that hasn't happened yet.
yada yada yada."  And I'm thinking too, "Why fill IBM's coffers?"

From a personal standpoint, it's a real PITA having to write RPG-IV code
for
V3R2.  I think it would be easier to sell them here on RPG-IV if we were
using
a V4R3+ flavor.

I just heard in the past week, however, that there's now a budget for
replacing all the AS400s for one big one with an LPAR for each 400 that
we're
replacing.  Can't wait!

- Dan Bale

-------------------- Original Message --------------------
Here we are consolidating several of our 400's.  Once we had 19 AS/400's.
Now we are down to 9.  Of these 9, only 2 are not running V4R5.  Basically
signifying that if you are not current, you will be consolidated.

I would think that would be a sign in the industry in general.  That if you
are not current, then management is just nursing you along until they
replace the 400 with something else.  Just thought I'd launch this balloon.

I submitted a suggestion to survey@midrange.com that we find out what
versions of OS/400 people are running.  We'll see if that one comes up.
Don't post to this list.

Enjoy your weekend!
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