Re: Fix Central to be discontinued

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From those who know:

"If a customer orders a DVD image of a PTF, then it runs through another 
system called CCSS.  Apparently that system is the reason for sending 
the notification and it is blankly sending this message to use a 
supported version regardless of what delivery type being used."

So no Fix Central is not going away. The time to to order PTFs on 
physical media however seems to be coming to an end.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 8/26/2016 12:18 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> Fix Central will be discontinued.
> They will be replacing it with Fix Central and a host of other methods.
>
> Or are they just so poor at communicating that what they are trying to say
> is that ordering PTF's via Fix Central to the FTP server is scheduled to
> be discontinued?
>
> *********************** WARNING ************************
> This ordered tool is targeted to be discontinued.
> Please change to a strategic tool for ordering
> (ex. Shopz, ServiceLink, Fix Central)
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> Forwarded by Rob Berendt/DEKKO on 08/26/2016 12:15 PM
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