RE: iSeries Navigator alternatives?

["Ketzes, Larry" <Larry.Ketzes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Our company has staff testing the microsofty pathes full time and scheduling
them to move into production.  That is not a problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Hoffman
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 3:05 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: iSeries Navigator alternatives?

Sure it's been covered... but just in case...

SP3 on XP? Plus all the latest M$ fixes? (And I do mean recent.) Are the 
keys registered and all the activations are "Genuine"?

We had significant issues with one client that was still running all 
their PCs with SP1 on XP.

But I just finished 6.1 installs on fresh XP installs and SP3 with no 
issues.


On 04/16/2010 02:48 PM, Ketzes, Larry wrote:
> And that is a very good practice!)  I've typed the text in a separate
email.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Essinger
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 2:34 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: iSeries Navigator alternatives?
>
> Larry,
>
> If you attached anything but a text file to show the errors, please
> know that the list server strips out all attachments that are not
> text.  This is to protect us all from virus/malware/ and other bad
> things.
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Ketzes, Larry<Larry.Ketzes@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Here are 2 of them.  There are many more, however.  IBM support has not
> been
> > able to get to the bottom of our problem and this has been an
intermittent
> > problem for about a year now.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
> > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 1:48 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: iSeries Navigator alternatives?
> >
> > Larry,
> >
> > That's the same setup I have here. What kind of errors are you having?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Luis Rodriguez
> > IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Ketzes, Larry
> > <Larry.Ketzes@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> >
> > > Vern
> > >         Version 5.4 of Navigator.  XP on Windows.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Larry
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >   [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
> > > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:13 AM
> > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > > Subject: Re: iSeries Navigator alternatives?
> > >
> > > Larry
> > >
> > > What version of Navigator? What versions of Windows?
> > >
> > > Just askin'
> > >
> > > Vern
> > >
> > > Ketzes, Larry wrote:
> > > > Actually, price is not the issue.  We've been having serious
> > installation
> > > > and upgrade problems with the software and IBM support has not been
> much
> > > > help.  We are getting a number of messages halting installation and so
> > > far
> > > > no consistent solution.
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 4:35 PM
> > > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > > > Subject: Re: iSeries Navigator alternatives?
> > > >
> > > > iSeries Nav is only a small subset of IBM System i Access for windows.
> > >   It
> > >
> > > > is a no charge part of that product.  The part you pay for is 5250
> > > > emulation and the file transfer.  I haven't heard anything from Rumba
> in
> > > > quite awhile - used to use it.  There are a plethora of alternative
> 5250
> > > > products out there.
> > > >
> > > > What's your beef?  Price?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Rob Berendt
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