Re: Maintenance proposal question

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>]

This customer is willing to upgrade if necessary. They aren't cheap. How
can I find out the firmware version and when it's going eos?

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:33 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You can always use the excuse my dad always used for not changing the oil
> in his car:  If it isn't broke, don't fix it.
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> My customer has an 8202-E4D Power 720 ready for maintenance.  The salesman
> warned them that their machine goes EOS 12/31/20..  He then emailed  " IBM
> will no longer be updating firmware for this system nor providing any
> further system code development."
>
> I think the machine is only 3 years old.    They are on V7R3.  We don't use
> an HMC, this customer of mine is old school, do we care about firmware
> upgrades and whatever else is going EOS on 12/31/20?
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