Re: V5R1 -- MIDRANGE-L

They truly need to read the Memo to Users weeks before they plan on
upgrading.  These were pointed out here.

Rob Berendt

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A smart person learns from their mistakes,
but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes.



                    Leo Lefebvre
                    <leo@tug.ca>              To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
                    Sent by:                  cc:     BRussell@edsmith.com
                    midrange-l-admin@mi       Fax to:
                    drange.com                Subject:     V5R1


                    09/27/2001 09:36 AM
                    Please respond to
                    midrange-l






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
> Private and Confidential

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Leo Lefebvre
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Toronto Users Group for Midrange Systems
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