Re: AS400-720, V5R3, 2761 card and a very bad decision on Rochester'spart

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

What about the 2805 card?  That also has the built in modems?

Maybe next time before you buy hardware you might want to search the 
following:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/nav.html

I then clicked on:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/futurehdwr.html

And then clicked on:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/v5r1state.html#alt2
PCI Integrated Analog Modem #2761/#4761, February 2002:
V5R1 is planned to be the final release in which non-fax functions 
provided on feature #2761/#4761, PCI Integrated Analog Modem, will be 
supported. Functions that will not be supported in future releases 
include, but are not limited to, SDLC and synchronous PPP operations. The 
follow-on feature for feature #2761/#4761 for -FAX- support on iSeries is 
feature #2805, PCI Quad Modem IOA. In Australia and New Zealand, the 
follow-on feature for feature #2761/#4761 is feature #2806, PCI Quad Modem 
IOA. The #2761/#4761 PCI Integrated Analog Modem is not planned to be 
supported on future iSeries hardware models.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




"William A.\(Tony\) Corbett" <corbett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi,
Anybody else in this position?  Supportline tells me that V5R3 will not
support the 2761 card.  Worse yet, I'm told that V5R3 will DISABLE this
card.  Unsupported I can live with (don't like it, but I can live with 
it).
DISABLING the card is another matter altogether.

Well, I just installed one of these, in the middle of a budget year, so 
the
request had to go to upper management for approval.  I'm trying to raise
enough #@*! to get IBM NOT to do this to an extremely loyal IBM customer.

The ONLY option I'm offered is eight (yes that's 8) modems to perform the
Facsimile/400 function.  This is not an acceptable solution.

Very likely, we'll be stuck at V5R2.  Which means, there'll be no use in
paying for Supportline nor Software Subscription.  Lost $$ for IBM and
possibly a lost AS400 customer.

And no, I don't need an 8xx box.  We've still got untapped capacity on the
720.  Most likely, IBM will FORCE the company to use a Windows "solution"
for faxing, something I've been fighting for a long time now.  Not very
smart on IBM's part.

If you are in my position, PLEASE start putting some pressure on IBM, 
while
there's still time.  This is the kind of thing that iNation is supposed to
be all about.

I've already started.

And before you say it, a 2805 won't work in a 720 (my understanding).

AS/Resources, Inc.
William A.(Tony) Corbett
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Developer
http://www.asresources.com
corbett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
770-587-4812 (office)
678-935-5006 (mobile)
fax:  404-663-4737



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