RE: V7R2 media

<< MANY (though not all) software BPs are just not skilled in O/S upgrades
and maintenance.>>

It certainly makes a case for IBM to have a requirement that in order to
maintain BP status, the BP keep a trained person on the payroll.

Paul Nelson
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Office 409-267-4027
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
DrFranken
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 10:41 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: V7R2 media

The simplest way is for your business partner to bring you media. If
they are very good said media will already contain all the PTFs to date
already applied. At the least will bring the current PTF media set with
them as well. It will with near certainty be virtual media as nobody has
the time to burn tens of billions of pits into plastic any more.

Personally I think downloading the media from IBM is a pain, I've told
them so, and I'm not going to rehash that here.

Perhaps they need to engage a different vendor for the upgrade than for
their software. MANY (though not all) software BPs are just not skilled
in O/S upgrades and maintenance.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
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On 4/28/2016 10:31 AM, Paul Nelson wrote:

How does one obtain the physical media for V7R2?

Computer Guidance Corporation (a subsidiary of Explorer Software) has
outdone themselves again. They announced that they are forcing customers

to

upgrade, and then gave their customers a list of files to download, unzip,
and ftp.

One of those customers spent over 30 hours with the downloads of the OS,
including junk they don't need.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx