Re: System ID / System Passwords

["Larry Bolhuis" <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well i810 upgrades are discontinued and have been for 'some time'. So are 
i825 and anything else in that family. While it sounds cold harsh and 
cruel, IBM has no business reason to provide that password. In fact it 
hurts them in the long run as providing these passwords would encourage 
more users to stay on older hardware thus dragging out support 
requirements for those machines.  The customer has the choice of upgrading 
to a different i810 (or any other used system) with a different serial 
number (clearly this has issues) or purchasing a new POWER system from 
IBM. The used hardware path completely keeps IBM out of the hardware 
picture but potentially gets them software revenue and the POWER system 
provides them revenue on hardware and software. 

This would be what I would have expected for IBM to do for discontinued 
upgrades.

  - Larry
 
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jim t wrote:
> I was involved in an processor upgrade on an 810 recently. IBM would not 
recognize the upgrade and refused to give us the new password.... they 
told us on the day the password was to expire. We had to downgrade to the 
old processor again.
> Jim
YUK! did they tell you why? Any more details?