Re: Checking the level of interest

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I have asked IBM to publish a list of vendors that they locate that are not
compliant, and they haven't responded to me one way or the other.  The
problem with System/38 upgrade to AS/400, or CISC-to-RISC is that
management had to "buy in" for that upgrade.  You had to execute the
SPENDMONEY command for those upgrades.  Here, you only need a software
subscription.  So an operator can drive the company into a bridge abutment
if you don't read all the documentation.  Many operators do new releases by
rote.  The revised PTF to predict which programs will offend the upgrade is
not out yet.

V5R3M0 of TAA Tools is not compliant, and you need to upgrade to V5R4, the
September 15 release of TAA Tool for V5R3, or get a fix that will be posted
to our website.  V5R4 of TAA Tool is OK.  Older releases of TAA are bad.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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Trevor,

It is a huge concern.  V6R1 is reminiscent of the CISC-to-RISC upgrade
with it's requirement of recompiling everything that does not have
observability and was compiled prior to V5R1.  (V5R1 changed as it kept
just enough in there to be ready for this when it came.)  There are
numerous vendor packages that are not ready even though IBM pulled in many
vendors about a year ago and told them to start preparing.
The question is, are more vendors going to get the word?  Are those
vendors that participated earlier going to pull their heads out of... the
sand?
Here's a legitimate question:  Is there a statement of support from
various vendors for V6R1?  Like, for version #.#.# of software XYZ you
will need fixpack @.@.@

A search of
http://www-912.ibm.com/a_dir/as4ptf.nsf/$$search?openform
for ANZOBJCVN is pulling up some ptf's for V5R3 and V5R4.
There's a good question:  What ptf's are necessary to get ANZOBJCVN to be
ready for this?

Boy, all those people that keep thinking this is an AS/400 are in for a
real treat if they try to skip upgrading by simply doing a save/restore
from V5R2 or earlier to V6R1.  There's a good question:  How does one
manually perform ANZOBJCVN in such a situation?  I found a few anomalies
in early versions of ANZOBJCVN and worked with them as to how to verify it
manually.

Here's another question:  Since the point of this hassle is to provide
better performance and to slay FAST/400 (and other attempts to avoid the
interactive tax), will we stop seeing the huge disclaimer on ptf's for
V6R1?

See also:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4293.html

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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All,

An iSociety Fireside chat topic has been suggested as "Preparing for
V6R1".

The Fireside chats are a text chat medium. There is a "celebrity" for each
chat (in this case, it will be an IBMer), who will answer as many
questions
as can be fit into one hour. The medium allows you to submit your
questions
during the live chat process. A transcript will be made available
following
the chat.

What is the level of interest in this topic?

Thanks,
Trevor



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