Re: Problem with specifying previous release 6.1

I don't find it surprising that people cheered. But you're throwing away
1/4 or more of your customer base. Most who aren't at conferences, or if
they are, it's out of their control.

We don't officially support old outdated OS versions, but we won't turn
away customers who need help either, especially if we can help.

Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 3:58 PM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There actually have been vendors who announced they would no longer
support below current - 2 and their conferences,
And the audience stood, applauded and cheered. The vendor found it quite
surprising. However the trench workers wanted a "business" reason to get
current.

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Subject: RE: Problem with specifying previous release 6.1

Thanks everyone for all the responses. I just confirmed with IBM that it
is still n-2 versions and there isn't a "magic" ptf that will provide n-3.

The specifics are that I am a consultant developing for a company that has
a client / server package that they sell and I am responsible for the
iSeries client side. We are at the mercy of the customer as far as which
version of OS they are running. Or, I guess in this case, any V6.1
customers are now at my mercy and will have upgrade to get new versions. :)

I have a tiny machine (8202-E4D) that either doesn't handle hosted LPARs
well or I screwed up the LPARing because a while back I had V7.1 hosting a
V6.1 LPAR and the machine got really slow. I have since wiped the machine
and installed (not upgraded) V7.3 which wiped the V6.1 LPAR and it runs
fast again (relatively speaking).

A while back someone offered me a 270 machine which maxed out at V5R4.
Since V5R4 is not available and not supported, is there any way to get
keys for it or since is it beyond support, can the folks that have the
machine give me their keys and I am good to go...or is that a license
violation? I don't want to release software if the keys used to create it
are illegal.

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