RE: operating system upgrade

And on the other side of the fence, I have clients still running on
V3R7 since they don't want to change the 150. Yes they know they are
taking a risk. Their intention is to buy another "used" box when the
150 dies. If that means they have to run their business via paper,
that's the MANAGEMENT decision not the TECHNICAL STAFF.


Sharon Wintermute

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Subject: Re: operating system upgrade

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 20:33, Burns, Bryan <Bryan_Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Management needs a more compelling reason to go to V4R5 than the fact

that our OS is ''old".

It takes a lot of time and effort to do an upgrade so they want to

know what it buys us. Typically, we're forced to do upgrade
the OS because of new hardware.

With an unsupported OS, all you can do is HOPE that you won't have a
problem. Because noone is going to help you.

Upgrade _now_, while you're still fully supported. This is not a
decision that should be made by management and instead by technical
staff.

OTOH, if management does not want to upgrade, make sure you get a
written disclaimer from them that they'll be running a configuration
unsupported by IBM.