Re: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul

Can someone clarify this. There definitely were recent release
upgrades where at least parts of OV400 disappeared. Older
posts indicated you could then restore parts, but not get all functions.
I've got an upgrade pending our rewriting a data text merge/print
function using OV400 commands. Been stuck at V4R5 just for this.
(customer delaying, not me)
jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul


> Because they wanted to move people to Domino so they could make more
> money.
>
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:25:23 -0400, "Pat Barber"
> <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > This whole OV/400 thing just makes me crazy. First
> > they make HUGE announcements that it's gonna die,
> > and it doesn't die, then they announce even more
> > stuff and it doesn't die, and now here we are four
> > or five years later, and it still works.
> >
> > I don't think I will ever understand why they didn't
> > simply leave wrkdoc and prtdoc alone. This was done
> > with other older software such as BGU, which works
> > just fine to this very day.
> >
> > Pete Helgren wrote:
> >
> > > Pat,
> > >
> > > We took the existing 720 to V5R3M0 and then did a Save option 21 and a
> > > restore to both i5/OS partitions (well, it was a little more complex
but
> > > basically that was it).  It works fine.  They primarily use it for
mail
> > > merges to create mailing labels and letters.  Don't think anyone uses
it for
> > > daily letter writing  :)
> >
> >
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