RE: V6R1

I have run ANZOBJCVN at about a dozen companies, and it is amazing how many
3rd party applications are failing. The homewritten stuff doesn't seem to
be a problem, but many many high profile applications that are in a lot of
shops are issues. We are working at getting new releases of the ISV
programs, but as other posts have written it's as if they are just starting
to get on board.

I think IBM has come through by providing the command, I don't think many of
the ISV's have run it over their programs. This is where the problem is in
my mind. We have contacted a few of these ISV's and they are like "what's
the rush, V6R1 isn't out till end of March", but I think they fail to
realize people want to get the new programs installed and tested for a while
before upgrading. This will make the customers system ready to go so that
when they do decide to upgrade they are all set.

Doing an upgrade is very easy, I did over 70 upgrades last year, it's the
planning that is important. This is what separates a successful upgrade and
a unsuccessful upgrade. I do not see V6R1 as any different than any other
release. Plan, Plan, Plan, and your upgrade will be fine and easy. Stick
the CDs in and "lets see what happens" and you are going to have big
problems as Al was saying.

Pete Massiello

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Subject: Re: V6R1

Gotta back Al on a lot of this. I've had numerous software packages that
do not pass ANZOBJCVN. I've been after them for months to comply. They
are only starting now to comply. And some, still not yet.

I understand what Al is saying about ANZOBJCVN and the "what the heck -
let's update" operator. However, like you are sort of saying, anyone who
fails to read the MTU or thinks what IBM is saying in there really isn't
all that significant, ought to be horse dragged through a cactus field.

Rob Berendt