Yes, there are, however, be careful. Some of the companies have CEs trained
in IBM i, most do not.
I had a customer in northern Indiana that went down TWICE in a week because
a CE from a third party firm just pulled a drive to replace it (wrong drive
of course, and did not use DST to do it) The CE did not even know there
was such a thing as DST and why the fuss, you just restore that one drive
and you're done, right? Publicly traded company to boot. Senior execs were
really impressed with that whole saga. They now run all Microsoft
software/hardware.
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Cagle
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2018 11:06 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Alternative to IBMi hardware maintenance
IBM is dropping support for our POWER5 in Jan 2019. Are there any options
available for 3rd party support?
Thanks
Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk
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