RE: I/O features not planned to be supported beyond V5R3

This concerns me greatly.  We bought a new 810 last year (after two years of
lobbying for an upgrade) that came with 10 6718 disk units.  We migrated an
additional 10 6717 disk units from our old 720.  Now this planning statement
indicates that none of our disk units will be supported (on a current O/S)
beyond next year.

Something like this could cause my shop to get out of the iSeries
altogether.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group 

-----Original Message-----
date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:33:53 -0500
from: Neil Palmer/DPS <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: I/O features not planned to be supported beyond V5R3

:-)

Several of those tape drives are in the 8xx models and are still being 
sold.


Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Re: I/O features not planned to be supported beyond V5R3



Since they are not going to support 170 or 7XX boxes,
that doesn't leave many machines to put those feature
codes in does it ???

This is one way to really leave a lot of older machines
in the dust...

They apparently forgot that pledge thing about not leaving
any customers behind ???(except those who buy new machines)

I assume the price of hardware is going to be sooo low that
everybody will buy one.

I'm just trying to imagine all those billions of backup
tapes on obsolete media....(just kidding)

I can hear it now, "Uhhh, those new 200tb tape drives can't
seem to read any of our old backup tapes".
   
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