Re: Upgrade from 6.1 to 7.1

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob

there is no need to "rip out SNA" because Anynet is not supported.
Anynet does not equal SNA - it's just a communications configuration
option.

The conversion to EE is quite painless and simple and leaves all the
old SNA utilities intact.

Frankly if I was working on your site I'd probably want to configure
EE because I've always found the SNA utilities to be superior to the
TCP alternatives, particularly the SAVRST* commands.

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:38 AM,  <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> yeah, we ripped out all snads awhile back.  There was only minor wailing
> and gnashing of teeth from some developers.  They've adjusted.  We started
> out when they first planned on getting rid of anynet (many releases ago).
> Looked at Enterprise Extenders and decided for what little we used snads
> it wasn't worth the time and effort to learn.  I am sure there are some
> people who will argue it's simple.  But, hey, it took a few 2x2's to the
> head for me to realize that binder language was really that easy and just
> do it.
>
>
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> From:   Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:   11/22/2011 12:39 AM
> Subject:        Re: Upgrade from 6.1 to 7.1
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>
> Hi Pete
>
> Regarding Anynet on V7R1, it actually does work - we have at least two
> customers where it continued working after an upgrade.
>
> By way of clarification, I happened to read an IBM document in  just
> the last few days which listed it as "Still included in i 7.1, but no
> longer supported"; the document is an IBM Systems University Technical
> - Budapest 3-6 May 2010 presentation in PDF format titled "p AD02
> Upgrading from IBM 5.4 to IBM i 6.1 or IBM i 7.1" (sorry no URL)
>
> Like you I thought it had been discontinued but the document above
> confirmed what we had already seen.
>
> Nevertheless, we are ripping it out as we go anyway - it's bound to
> disappear at some stage.