Re: V4R3 vs V4R4 license

EDI guy at ComfortSleeper if that rings a bell.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 3:43 PM
Subject: RE: V4R3 vs V4R4 license


> Good luck, Peter.  Seems like I know Robin Chewings from somewhere.  I am
> sure out paths have cross, but I can not remember where.  This (midrange)
is
> a small world.
> cjg
>
> Carl J. Galgano
> EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
> 600 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 400
> Marietta, GA  30060
> (770) 422-2995 - voice
> (770) 425-8391 - fax
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dow [mailto:maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 6:25 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: V4R3 vs V4R4 license
>
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> That's good to know.  The original machine this customer had was a model
> 150, and DSPLICKEY on that shows no keys.  Robbin hasn't retrieved the
> waterlogged 170 yet, so we can't see that yet.  Should happen this week.
> Meanwhile, he's setting up another 170 with V4R4 since it has a tape drive
> on buss 0 and he was able to boot from his V4R4 backup tape.  Then it'll
> just be a matter of restoring user data etc.
>
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 793-9050 voice
> 909 793-4480 fax
> 951 522-3214 cell
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 4:50 AM
> Subject: RE: V4R3 vs V4R4 license
>
>
> > Yeah, that is a good story.
> > Peter, I have been in that situation as well.  If the new box was
> originally
> > upgrade to V4R4 from V4R3, then the 4.3 license codes are stored on
> > the machine, and you CAN downgrade the box. If you do a DSPLICKEY
> > command, it will show you ALL the lic keys that have been applied to
> > the system, not just the current ones. cjg
> >
> > Carl J. Galgano
> > EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
> > 600 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 400
> > Marietta, GA  30060
> > (770) 422-2995 - voice
> > (770) 425-8391 - fax
> > mailto:cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ediconsulting.com
> > AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and
> > Implementation
> > http://www.icecreamovernight.com
> > Premium Ice Cream Brands shipped Overnight
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pete Massiello [mailto:pmassiello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 8:16 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: V4R3 vs V4R4 license
> >
> >
> >   You will have 70 days to do the upgrade.  You can put the disks in
> > the
> 170
> > (wow I cant even remember what the mininum OS/400 release is for a
> > 170,
> but
> > I think V4R3 is fine).  After you get machine up, then upgrade it to
> > V4R4, and enter your keys.
> >
> > By the way, great story.  It just amazing that when if you don't ask
> > the right questions, sometimes customers and users just don't tell you
> > things that they don't think are important.  Like its in water :)
> >
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > ---------------------------- Original Message
> > ----------------------------
> > Subject: V4R3 vs V4R4 license
> > From:    "Peter Dow" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:    Sun, January 16, 2005 3:09 pm
> > To:      MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > An associate of mine, Robbin Chewings, has a customer who called him
> > up to complain that their AS400 wasn't doing anything.  He asked for
> > the message they get when trying to signon via CAE, and they said it
> > was getting an error message that indicated it wasn't connecting at
> > all.  So he tried to connect via telnet, with no luck.  So he asked
> > them to look in the
> computer
> > room and make sure the power is on.  They said the fans are on, and
> > there was an unfamilira source code on the front panel, something like
> > 00002222 (Service processor failure caused machine check interrupt).
> > He asked them to do a power down from the front panel, and after
> > talking them through putting it manual mode and pressing the power
> > button twice, they said it wouldn't power down.  So he asked them to
> > unplug it, and the conversation went something like
> >
> > Customer: I'm afraid to - I'm standing in water.
> >
> > Robbin:  Water? How much water?
> >
> > Customer: About 4 inches, I think.
> >
> > He eventually talked to a maintenance man who unplugged it. When the
> > IBM
> CE
> > looked at it, he said that from the green color on the motherboard, it
> > had been submerged before.  A new motherboard would be about $15K.  So
> > Robbin
> is
> > going to replace it with another model 170 into which he'll put their
> > disk drives.
> >
> > The replacement machine is licensed for V4R4; the one that died was
> licensed
> > for V4R3. So when he switches the disk drives, it will ask for the
> > V4R3 license key, which won't work since it's for the old machine. IBM
> > will not give him a down-level license key for the new machine, so he
> > plans to install V4R4, for which he has a license.  He has a save tape
> > for V4R4, but can't boot from it because the tape device is not on bus
> > 0.  He doesn't have the boot CD for V4R4, so he's looking for a copy
> > of a V4R4
> boot
> > CD, or some ideas on how to boot from the save tape. The other
> > possibility is to get a down-level license for V4R3 for the new
> > machine so the system
> on
> > the disks is usable.  The ultimate goal is to get a working machine at
> > either V4R3 or V4R4.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Peter Dow
> > Dow Software Services, Inc.
> > 909 793-9050 voice
> > 909 793-4480 fax
> > 951 522-3214 cell
> >
> >
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