Re: PASE runtime going away!!!!

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

April 1st?  Reminds me of the last round of layoffs and I modified one's 
Notes calendar to have their out of office say they'd be returning that 
day. (A return date is mandatory.)  Took some people in the office some 
time to figure that joke out.  (Nothing like a little humor at the expense 
of someone's livelihood.)

5732 = Italian V5R3

>From my DSPSFWRSC:
Resource 
   ID     Option  Feature  Description 
5722SS1   33       5111    OS/400 - Portable App Solutions Environment
5722SS1   33       2924    OS/400 - Portable App Solutions Environment

You don't happen to have a direct link to that announcement letter, do 
you?

Although this wouldn't surprise me.  They're already not going to support 
the latest TSM in PASE.  Keep in mind, that in IBM's opinion merging the 
Linux and AIX to the i5 was not to extend the i5.  It was to step stone 
you gracefully from OS/400 onto those environments.  (Bitter freaking 
sarcasm, totally not fact based.)

Rob Berendt
-- 
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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PASE runtime going away!!!!






All according to this article:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021405-story04.html

"On that same day (April 1st), IBM also plans to withdraw the OS/400 PASE 
AIX runtime environment (feature 5732 of OS/400) from marketing, as well 
as its feature 1893 36.4 GB, 10K RPM disk drives. Now that the i5 supports 
the real AIX, IBM doesn't want to sell customers an AIX runtime 
environment or pay to support it on older machines. Customers who want to 
run Unix applications on their OS/400 platforms will just have to upgrade 
to i5s and run the real AIX."


WTF?  I don't explicitly use PASE at present, but I was under the 
impression that some of the new features in OS/400, (DNS, C++ compiler 
maybe?) were actually AIX executables running in PASE.  How can they kill 
it off?

Seems like that could cause some problems to those on older but recent 
boxes such as my 810.

How exactly does the dropping work?  If I order v5r3 now will it have PASE 
but if I order it after March 1 it won't?

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

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