Re: V7R1 is not supported anymore (at least for SSL ciphers)

[Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Strongly agreed!!!!!!!!!!!1


Don Brown





From:   Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   20/12/2016 10:07 AM
Subject:        Re: V7R1 is not supported anymore (at least for SSL 
ciphers)
Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



The former.  IBM should be supporting and updating a release.  Is it
hogwash or are they lazy and don't want to have to go back to perform the
updates?

There is no fix.  Even using non-strict SSL.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Brad are you saying "Hogwash or lazy?" that IBM is not providing updated
> cyphers at 7.1
> or
> Are you saying "Hogwash or lazy? " that there is a fix for the missing
> cyphers at 7.1
>
> Don Brown
>
>
>
>
> From:   Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   20/12/2016 09:05 AM
> Subject:        V7R1 is not supported anymore (at least for SSL ciphers)
> Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> I know this has been an issue lately, but I had another customer try to
> use
> our GETURI application and got an error saying that the ciphers needed
> were
> not installed.
>
> They called IBM and were told that the cipher needed is only supported 
on
> V7R2 and up.
>
> Hogwash or lazy?  I don't know.  But I sure am not pleased with these
> decisions to partially support on OS version.
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com
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