Re: V5R1 -- MIDRANGE-L

well, yes and so was the 128 MB restriction... in big, bold letters. But I
still know people that can read that missed that one...

sometimes, it just pays to have a second set of eyes on the problem.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"America is the land that fought for freedom and then
  began passing laws to get rid of it."

     - Alfred E. Neuman

-----Original Message-----
From: rob@dekko.com <rob@dekko.com>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2001 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: V5R1


>
>They truly need to read the Memo to Users weeks before they plan on
>upgrading.  These were pointed out here.
>
>Rob Berendt
>
>==================
>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
>
>--
>
>Leo Lefebvre
>Vice & Past President
>Toronto Users Group for Midrange Systems
>Visit our home page at <http://www.tug.ca>
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