Re: This is interesting (OS support)

["Al Barsa" <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This link doesn't work well for me, but then again the Notes client that I
use for e-mail @#$%s up links frequently.  I thought that when IBM
announced the last round of 8xx, the also announced the extension of
support of V5R1 and V5R2.

With the issue of how long does IBM support releases, IBM is an absolute
pendulum.  They go back and forth constantly.  At the end of CISC into
RISC, they were supporting many to many releases, so they cut back
way-to-way much.  Then IBM cut funding development, so future releases got
put out further an further, so this caused the announcement of the
extension of V5R1 and V5R2 support.  IBM does seem firmly committed to n-2
support (from time to time).

Right now, there are too many customers on V4R5, because they need OV/400.
(IBM's version of the 1988 edition of starting to take heroin.)  I have
expounded on this list on how to take a new box to V5R2, while keeping an
older system V4R5, and would be happy to do so again.

If you confirm that you have no hardware incompatabilities, and no
improperly written triggers, and that you are not running OV/400, and you
are on V4R5, get off of it and onto V5R2 (skip V5R1).  Generally speaking,
it's probably the most stable release of OS/400 ever.  It is certainly
comparable with the better RISC releases of version 4, and I feel better.
We clearly have found less problems here than on any prior release.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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914-251-1234
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Check this out
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/support/planning/suptschedule.h

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They announced the end of V5R2 support before they even announce V5R3.
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