Re: With the dropping of a few features from IBM i are there vendor software concerns?

<observation>for customers that have a long history with s36 and/or as400
into i, who rarely spend$$$ to rewrite working parts of applications, where
commercial apps do not exist for their niche businesses - things like sda,
(and yes even dfu and a few s36 rpgii pgms, which so far have not seen
mentioned) - all in use daily,
Believe me, i know how old the stuff is, having converted lots of old code
to current, including beyond 5250 to a web interface,
I don't blame IBM for moving on - but for those ancient enough to remember
the ibm as/400 British taxi-cab ad campaign of several posters - "You
don't need an army to run the system", there was another poster - "The next
generation won't need to change the system"... (hanging on my wall).
The spring announcements will perhaps add clarity about keeping old
products on a newer server and release..
Jim Franz .


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On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 3:22 PM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The network install from an image catalog currently requires BOOTP. At
IBM I next there must be another mechanism they plan to use, and the HMC is
most likely that method (currently) so we will find out.

The other items, I agree and were rarely used anyway.


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Sep 23, 2024, at 11:45 AM, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Jim,

Am 23.09.2024 um 17:12 schrieb MidrangeL <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

The other question I have is with the BOOTP server going away, how is a

network installation going to be done, only from the HMC? A question to
ponder in the next year.

I guess IBM gets rid of bootp/dhcp/radius/DNS server because these are

commonly parts of MS Active Directory servers which function as central
authority in many companies. At least here in Germany.

I'm pretty sure network installations can be done without HMC, because

HMC is yet another Linux with standard components and some customizations.
The hardest part is probably the initial obtaining of a 5250 console to
support installation.

Diego Kesselman did some research and documentation in late 2020 about

image catalogs and backup/restore which might help the case.

:wq! PoC



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