That being the case, I would search for a third party maintenance contract, do time and materials and keep the 2003-116.
--------------------------------------------------------- Robert B. Richards (Bob) US Office of Personnel Management 1900 E Street NW Room: BH04L Washington, D.C. 20415 Phone: (202) 606-1195 Email: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Billy R. Bingham Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 8:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OS/390 The company currently has a 2003-116 and IBM will be dropping maintenance 12/31/2009. They want to go to newer hardware (z890/z990) but does not want to upgrade their software, I repeat, does not want to upgrade their software. They want to stay on OS/390 1.3 until they migrate off to an ERP package. Billy ---- Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > For the record, IBM never supported OS/390 1.3 on the z900 model. The > earliest OS/390 release supported on the z900 was 2.6. On the z800 the > earliest was 2.8. > > Perhaps it would be a good idea if the original poster described what he is > trying to do. We might have some alternative ideas for solving the problem > (s). > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
