Re: v6r1 PTFs to get TLS v1.1?

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes an no.  As I mentioned to Larry, I see a lot of customers buying
"used" systems.  Where they get them I don't ask.   :)  But I don't
think it's IBM.
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On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 7:53 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Larry,
> I agree that they should have ordered 7.3 (or at least 7.2 but why stop
> there?).
> However I think Brad was just reiterating the folly of selecting 7.1 in
> the first place on such an upgrade.
> The part you were pointing out was that, while Brad sympathizes with them
> he is telling them it's time to "pull the nail".
>
>
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> From:   DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   05/18/2017 08:46 AM
> Subject:        Re: v6r1 PTFs to get TLS v1.1?
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> On 5/18/2017 8:39 AM, Bradley Stone wrote:
>
>  > This should be a sticky somewhere.  I've had many customers purchased
>  > "new" machines with V7R1 lately only to find this out and they're up a
>  > creek.  Of course they get frustrated at IBM... I sort of understand
>  > why but sometimes saving a few bucks ends up costing more in the long
>  > run.
>
> But in this case all they need to do is upgrade to i 7.2 or 7.3 correct?
> They can be frustrated I suppose that they did not simply order their
> new machine with the new release but that's not really on IBM if the
> customer picked the release.
>
>
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