RE: Discontinued support for certain software and hardware.

Just like when we left quite a bit of old hardware behind before, we will do
it again. I have to upgrade the tape sleds in my 3573 but big deal; I
needed to do that anyway. Most of that stuff should have been dead long ago
anyway.

As to the links, don't get to hard on the Power Systems folks, they don't
control all of that. As to what information is out, give it a bit of time,
it will all get there.

The IBM web sites have been getting more and more unusable as time goes on,
every time they ty to "improve" them. Yesterday DeveloperWorks was a train
wreck. I'm hoping it's better today.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


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Of course should IBM even have a section in there pointing you to a
worthless website if they list it further down in the Memo to Users?
Like this:

Tape and optical device types that are not supported on IBM i 7.2 The
following tape and optical device types have either reached end of service,
were only supported on
POWER5 or require an IOP for attachment. They are not supported on IBM i
7.2.
v IBM 3995 Optical Library
v 3570 tape library - all drive types
v 3573 tape library with LVD LTO3 and HH LTO3 tape drives v 3575 tape
library - all drive types v 3576 tape library with LVD LTO3 drives v 3490
tape device and library - all models v 3580-001 HVD tape drive v 3580-002
HVD tape drive v 3580-002 LVD tape drive v 3580-003 LVD tape drive v 3581
tape library - all drive types v 3582 tape library - all drive types v 3583
tape library - all drive types v 3584 tape library with HVD LTO1 and LTO2
drives v 3584 tape library with LVD LTO2 drives v 3590 tape device and
library - all models v 5753 SLR60 tape drive v 5754 SLR100 tape drive v 5755
HH LTO2 LVD tape drive v 6120 VXA2 tape drive v 6258 DAT72 tape drive v 6279
VXA3 tape drive v 6382 SLR5 tape drive v 6383 MLR1S tape drive v 6384 SLR60
tape drive v 6386 MLR3 tape drive v 6387 SLR100 tape drive v 7207-122 SLR5
tape drive v 7207-330 SLR60 tape drive v 7208 8mm tape drive - all models v
9348 1/2 inch reel tape drive


Rob Berendt
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