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Hank,

I'm not sure what you're asking.  If the machines are not on software
subscription, then you will need to pay a currency access fee and get it
on subscription, so you will have those expenses.  I'm assuming that you
can document ownership of any installed software.

You can certainly do a two-step upgrade, although you will need to borrow
the V4R5 CD's from some other machine.  IBM won't send you the middle
CD's but once you're on subscription for those machines, they will send
you V5R1 or V5R2.  You won't be on the middle release long enough for the
authorization codes to expire.

You say you "inherited" the machines.  Are they running in production
now?  Did they come from another company?  (If they came from another
company you may have a time window in which you can get on subscription
without penalty).

What third party solutions were you thinking of?

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:04 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: V4R3 upgrade (HH)
> 
> I've run into an interesting situation. We have inherited a couple of
> unsupported boxes running V4R3. I need them to be upgraded up to V5R1 -
> legally, of course. The IBM site says there is no "supported" upgrade
> path,
> so I may have to seek third party solutions. Any ideas on how to do
> this
> without blowing my budget for the year?
> 
> - Hank Heath
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