Re[2]: ASM: What does this mean? Update Access Key Exp Date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2017-08-23

A little clarification, the Update Access Key is included with the
hardware warranty and/or IBM hardware maintenance contract. You are
eligible for any firmware updates which were published before your
warranty/maintenance expired. My understanding is once under HW
maintenance the keys will expire every 180 days but are only needed when
you are upgrading firmware.

------ Original Message ------
From: "Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 1/26/2017 12:58:03 PM
Subject: RE: ASM: What does this mean? Update Access Key Exp
Date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2017-08-23

Put another way, the FSP code now has its own software maintenance
agreement
as of Power8. You'll need to get that agreement updated and
potentially pay
for the support.

So you need 3 agreements now: 1) software support for IBM i , 2)
hardware
maintenance, and 3) FSP microcode.


--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
DrFranken
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 11:13 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: ASM: What does this mean? Update Access Key Exp Date
(YYYY-MM-DD): 2017-08-23

It means that after that date you will no longer be able to update your
firmware.

That is unless your business partner sells you the appropriate key to
extend
that date.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 1/26/2017 11:56 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

It's a bad day when I have to launch ASMI. While in there I am
noticing "Update Access Key Exp Date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2017-08-23".
What does this mean?


Rob Berendt

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