Re: catch-22: M36; V4R4 not available

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Move from M36.

Rob Berendt

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The great Catch-22 stuck place:

This M36 customer needs to upgrade OS/400.  They are at V4R2 and haven't
ever CUMed.  They are having what appear to be system issues with their new
ethernet LAN/TCP/IP connections.  They can CUM V4R2 -- that's ok.  IBM will
support that.  But, for the effort, it would make sense to upgrade to
V4R4/CUM (the last OS that M36 works on) but IBM won't sell it to them
since
IBM is further up the release road.  They aren't willing to have a pirate
copy of V4R4/CUM so what can they do?

Jerry

Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Network and Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's, Windows, Linux,
Sun, and AS/400
Representing Synapse, CLI, Nlynx, Perle, Lucent, 3Com and Others .....
http://www.trilosoft.com - (415) 457-3431 - (415) 258-1658fax -
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