Re: Harbinger Trusted Link - GUI only? -- MIDRANGE-L

I am a Harbinger BP and am quite pissed about this whole matter.  Many of
customers don't really have the need to move to the new V3, however will be
forced to due to the eventual lack of maint on the old V2 product.  Pretty
poor in my opinion.  IMHO, Harbinger has done nothing to enhance the old
Premenos software or corp.  This is a page taken strictly out of the
Sterling Software marketing manual.  Obsolete a product and "suggest" to the
customer that they upgrade to a newer and better product.  I hope there is
much resistance to this by Harbingers current customer base.  The software
is not cheap, the maint is fairly high and to obsolete a product, especially
for a customer who is doing very little changes to their EDI, is going to
force some customers to look at other products.  I have also heard that not
all map will convert to the new version of the product.... I have heard only
90% of maps will convert.  What if you have hundred of partners doing
several documents.  This will not be a trivial task.  I hope someone from
Harbinger monitors this list..... I'll probably be asked to turn in my BP
certificate!
CJG
Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
540 Powder Springs Street
Suite C19
Marietta, GA  30064
770-422-2995
mailto: cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
http://www.ediconsulting.com
EDI, Communications and AS400 Technical Consulting

-----Original Message-----
From: Reger, Bill <breger@levitz.com>
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 9:06 AM
Subject: RE: Harbinger Trusted Link - GUI only?


>Hi Brad,
>
>We use Trusted Link/400 also but we still use version 11.  However,
>Harbinger has been sending out "glossies" introducing their version 3.2.
>According to the one I am looking at, it says that 3.2 features a
>"browser-based GUI with drag-and-drop visual mapping".  My impression is
>that Harbinger is working toward combining their product sets (the AS/400
>Premenos product which they now own with their other Harbinger product
>line).  Since we don't use the client/server environment I am resisting.
>Also, once again they are expecting us to pay for this release.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>William K. Reger
>Senior Project Manager
>Levitz Furniture Corporation
>Phone:  (561) 994-5114
>E-mail:  breger@levitz.com <mailto:breger@levitz.com>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stone, Brad V (TC OASIS) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 5:31 PM
>To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
>Subject: Harbinger Trusted Link - GUI only?
>
>We just were working with Trusted Link/400 version 3.2 (the newest
version).
>We had someone in from another company that is on a previous version (11 I
>think, don't ask me why it's 11).
>
>When we got to the part for Translation Format Maintenence, we got a
message
>on our terminal that says to use the Client Interface.  There was a PC
>version sent to us that basically uses Seagull screen scrapers.  Anyhow, we
>shrugged it off and started using the PC interface.  We when got to the
>menu, ODBC error.  Great.  We got some PTF numbers that hopefully will fix
>that.
>
>But, in the meantime, has anyone upgraded to this version?  If not, are you
>aware that this option will no longer be available on the AS/400 menu?  We
>spoke with two tech supports who said this is correct... only the GUI
>interface can be used to set up translations.
>
>Also, this is kind of a warning for folks that planned on upgrading.  The
>guy that was showing us how it worked said "Whew!  I was going to upgrade
>last night!  I'm sure glad I didn't!"  He didn't even know this existed in
>the upgrade.
>
>Any thoughts?  Terrible marketing ploy in my opinion.
>
>Bradley V. Stone
>BVS/Tools
>http://www.bvstools.com
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ken Slaugh [mailto:ken.slaugh@cm-inc.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 7:22 PM
>> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
>> Subject: DSKMOV command
>>
>>
>> Is there such a command as DSKMOV? What OS/400 release did it become
>> available? Is this the best way to balance storage after adding
>> additional DASD? How much time should be expected to complete the
>> process?
>>
>> Ken Slaugh
>> Programmer/System Analyst
>> Certified Network Administrator MSE
>> Specialist - Client Access/400
>>
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