V5R1

Here is a message I received from a friend:


BRussell@edsmith.com wrote:

> I was wondering if you could send out this information on the midrange list.
> I am no longer a participant.  I am sending this note to some of the
> newsletters that I receive but I want to get the word out about these 2
> gotchas because I think there may be some other folks out there that get
> taken by surprise as we were.  We are finally fully back in business with
> these 2 applications but Jeff, John and I look pretty harried about now! I'm
> too old for these 3 a.m. quitting times!
>
> Here's the story:
>
> We have just gone through a particularly painful V5R1 upgrade on our
> production system.  We were caught unawares when the upgrade did not support
> the AS/400 firewall (the hardware is no longer supported) nor did it support
> Wireless Connection Services, the licensed program that supports our RF units
> in our warehouse application.  In our case, we are in an LPAR environment so
> we were able to install the WCS on the second partition which was luckily
> still at V4R5 and reconfigure our  ccess point then using a generic signon
> with automatic passthru, get our users back in business. In the case of our
> firewall we  ad to download one off of the internet and configure it for our
> environment.  We had run the V5R1 prep and not a word that  either  f these 2
> applications would not be supported.  We were also OV customers and Facsimile
> Support customers and we  new that OV was gone (the prep warned us about
> that) and the Integrated Fax Adapters were gone. We converted our Fax to the
> ntegrated analogue modem prior to the upgrade so we knew about both of these
> changes but the other two took us by surprise.  I hope this note helps avoid
> the same thing happening to someone else.

>
> Beverly R. Russell
> E.D. Smith & Sons, Limited
> 944 Hwy #8, Winona, ON L8E 5S3
> Phone:  (905)643-1211 ext. 372
> Fax:        (905)643-3328
> http://www.edsmith.com
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