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Is this called "planned obsolescence"? Bob Cozzi cozzi@rpgiv.com Visit the on-line Midrange Developer forum at: http://www.rpgiv.com > -----Original Message----- > From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com] On > Behalf Of rob@dekko.com > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:42 AM > To: rpg400-l@midrange.com > Subject: Re: Installing previous release compilers on V5R1? > > > V5R1 dropped the old trick of TGTRLS(V3R2M0) to support these older > machines. V5R1 only goes back to V4R4M0. > > If the individual locations cannot afford to upgrade then maybe removing > these machines and consolidating them onto the central location is a better > option. We've got a whale of a central machine. Everyone pays their fair > share. We've discovered the following benefits: > -Lower maintenance costs > -Faster response time - the higher speed processor more than made up for > the comm line > -Reduced down time. We bring the remote's library only down long enough to > do their part of the backup. Not for the whole duration of everyone's > backup. > -Lower leasing costs. You pay more for leasing multiples. Anyone who > purchases a 400 needs to go study accounting. You can't amortize the > machine before you should upgrade. You can guess that you purchased a > machine large enough to run your current applications, allowing for growth > in your business. Surprise - your applications change! Now you're doing > Domino, ADSM, Web, a different ERP package and missed your growth > projections also. After all, it takes 6 years to amortize. Who WILLINGLY > doesn't upgrade in that amount of time? > > > Rob Berendt > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > Benjamin Franklin > > > > "Peter Colpaert" > <Peter.Colpaert@hon To: RPG400-L@midrange.com > da-eu.com> cc: > Sent by: Fax to: > rpg400-l-admin@midr Subject: Installing previous > release compilers on V5R1? > ange.com > > > 02/19/2002 10:04 AM > Please respond to > rpg400-l > > > > > > > Hi, > > We are presently considering updating our development machine to V5R1, but > there are some possible problems ahead. > > We have to support local production machines which run from V3R2M0 (CICS) > to V5R1, so we have to cater for all. > > Upgrading the old machines is not an option (for monetary reasons of > course). > > Does anybody know whether it is possible to install additional RPG, RPGLE > and CL compilers on a V5R1 box, so that you can compile for releases prior > to V4R4M0? > > Thanks in advance. > > Peter Colpaert > Application Developer > Honda Europe NV > ---------- > "He's ALIVE, Jim. Where did I go wrong?" > ---------- > > _______________________________________________ > This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list > To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l > or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list > To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l > or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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