Brian, Agreed, but everything nowadays cost money
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Oct 16, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Brian France <b...@psu.edu> wrote: > Well we had such a pleasant phone call on Friday with IBM reps on this > subject. Much to our DISMAY, they maintain that this access was never free > and that promoting web sites costs money. And people at phones don't? IBMLINK > I'm told has been this way since either 98 or 99. I state, I never entered > that way. I entered via some support url that was quite long and was book > marked on my system. Later when all of my id's that had been created were > merged into one, the site has eventually changed to ibm.com/support. The > individual on the other end maintains no knowledge of this site only his > knowing to IBMLINK. So, at this point they want hit us up for like 300K over > a five year period to have this access for 7ids under their enterprise > contract. Can ya believe this?!?!?! I have no idea how many of you are out > there that have had this access and still do, I just hope you can maintain > it. Otherwise, I ask any of you out there to stand up now, cause otherwise > the access is just gonna be trimmed down one at a time until we're all paying > for electronic access. How about SHARE? Yell, scream... > > Currently one user id for the q/a ( which now is the ability to do PMR's, > searches, etc for z/OS ) is like 7k/year. > In a power point that came out on July of 2012 that we were given has a slide > that would suggest your MLC code does NOT cover this ability to submit a bug > on IBM's code ELECTRONICALLY. You have to pay the additional. How truly SAD > this is... > > >> We have 10 of us that can open SRs (along with SIS, AST, and SRD) but only >> one of us has Q&A. We do not have that Enterprise agreement. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > > -- > > Brian W. France > Systems Administrator (Mainframe) > Pennsylvania State University > Administrative Information Services - Infrastructure/SYSARC > Rm 25 Shields Bldg., University Park, Pa. 16802 > 814-863-4739 > b...@psu.edu <mailto:b...@psu.edu> > > "To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." > > Carl Sagan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
