As I indicated in my previous post, a one-year grace period for an already-purchased upgrade is probably standard. From our experience, however, you should not count on any extension beyond that. Marketing was very firm on this point. And no third-party entity can skirt the rules because IBM has to supply the microcode.
. . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Jt Tj <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 05/05/2011 10:13 AM Subject: Re: z9 BC withdraw from marketing Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Skip, IBM has stated that we can upgrade to our purchased capacity until 06/30/2011. However, I have not seen an IBM announcement that explicitly states this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
