RE: Advice on Home Development AS400

Well I would of beaten you to it, but if he wants to play with the etc. I 
have to restrict what they can play with as it might cause problems for 
others.

Make sure you know what can be transferred and what cannot. I am not sure 
or I would tell you. I think IBM has started to include the compilers and 
some (or all) of PDM for V4R5.  I think V4R4 you needed keys for the 
products. So someone can say they will through in a product, but if IBM 
does not know about it and you go to V4R4 or later you will have to buy it.

Also on software subscription if it lapses you pay 18 months to reactivate 
it. One business partner told me I could pay for the missed time instead. I 
do not think they give you a grace period if you just bought the machine.

Another thing I could not just buy the software I needed for an AS/400 (I 
bought from an end user), from any business partner. They have/had a value 
ad thing.

The one thing I thought I would have a problem with I did not, was proving 
to IBM the AS/400 worked (it did work) for hardware maintenance. I thought 
they would want to see it running, nope. One thing about hardware 
maintenance was the first contract I got said it was not in the home or 
home office and the web site said that also, but the business partner got 
one that did not say that and I think that might of been removed from all 
of them now.

It really is not as bad as it sounds as long as you know what to look out 
for and the above includes everything I know about.

You could check out  http://www.developer.ibm.com  also IBM credit sells 
used AS/400 sorry I do not have the link nearby. Not sure how their prices 
compare to others.

John Ross
www.netshare400.com

At 01:47 PM 6/19/01 -0400, you wrote:

>Somebody will probably beat me to this, but have you considered one of the 
>timeshare offerings?
>
>[snip]

>            There won't be more than two users on it, so memory is not 
> critical,
>but I would like to be able to play with all the web serving tools, etc.
[snip

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