Re: v6r1 PTFs to get TLS v1.1?

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And, you REALLY don't want to stop at 7.1 if cipher suites are a concern
to you. Many of the 7.1 ones are obsolete and the newer ones cannot be
added until you upgrade to 7.2 and beyond. This has been a huge bone of
contention to 7.1 users who feel that upgraded cipher suites are a "fix"
and not an upgrade and thus they should be entitled to them.
This is not going to happen. No way, no how. 7.2 MTU lists a change in
the OS which allows them to add the newer cipher suites.

This should be a sticky somewhere. I've had many customers purchased
"new" machines with V7R1 lately only to find this out and they're up a
creek. Of course they get frustrated at IBM... I sort of understand
why but sometimes saving a few bucks ends up costing more in the long
run.

Whenever a customer contacts me about hardware upgrade now, if they
mention V7R1 I do all I can to try and change their mind and go to at
least V7R2.

With more IBM i users finding out how great their machines are for web
serving and web service consuming and start implementing these things,
this can really end up biting you in the rear.

Bradley V. Stone
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