RE: [WDSCI-L] Ordering WDSC 5.1

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, IBM never automatically sends out upgrades, do they? That's the 
job of business partners, I believe. You have to order upgrades to the OS.

AmI missing something/

Vern

At 02:26 PM 10/13/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> I hear where you are coming from, but when you think about it, it isn't
> much different than not automatically sending out PTF's..
>
>  At a minimum, some kind of "opt-in" list would be nice where you could
> perhaps take one extra step to request to receive these upgrades and then
> have it happen automatically.
>
> If one were to look for a bright side to this, then perhaps this ordering
> requirement is at least allowing IBM to get some kind of idea as to who is
> using or interested in WDSC.  Since WDSC is included for free with a
> licensed program that basically everyone already has, one downside to that
> packaging is that it is hard for IBM to have an idea how many people are
> using it.
>
> Mark
>
> "Scott Johnson" <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> It would be REALLY nice if IBM could figure out a way to automatically
> send the
> update to the people who should be getting it.  With every new version, we
> have
> to manually order the upgrade.  Can't IBM query their database and see who
> is
> current on software subscription and who has the proper licensed program
> and
> ship it out?  You would thing a software company would be able to handle
> something that seems so simple. ;-)
>
> -- Scott J.