RE: Compiled Programs Under V5R4 - Work in V5R3?

It was hard enough getting them to spring for the 520E. :)

If I told them that we need a DRP box to match our production
environment that "might" be used they would see it as a $xxx,xxx,xxx
paperweight and probably balk.

They still can't get over our original 720 DRP purchase to be used
exclusively as a machine in waiting, so I don't think they'd be too
thrilled about dumping it and getting another one. 

As for licensing, here's our current situation:

1 - Production 720 (Full licensing)
1 - DRP 720 (DRP licensing only)

So we are going to:

1 - Production 720 (Full licensing)
1 - DRP 720 (Licensing demoted to DRP licensing)
1 - DRP 720 - to be gutted for parts for the DRP 720 and then sold off
(for pennies from what we've been told by our VAR).

Maintenance-wise, we are paying about $13k (CDN) per year between the
two 720s for S/W maintenance and about the same for H/W maintenance.

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:54 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Compiled Programs Under V5R4 - Work in V5R3?

Doesn't IBM still have some hot deals on DR boxes?  Wouldn't they be 
cheaper than maintenance on a 720?
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/hardware/is4ha/

If you keep the 720 you are stuck for all perpetuity on your 520 with 
TGTRLS(V5R3M0).  That's one major hassle.  Which also means that your
520 
can never upgrade two releases higher than V5R3 until you replace the DR

box.

Summary:  The 720 is not a valid DR box.  Why?  Because it cannot run 
V5R4.  Why does this not make it a valid DR box?  Because, with V5R4 you

can save spool files and data queue data.
SAVLIB ... SPLFDTA(*ALL) QDTA(*DTAQ).  These options are not allowed
with 
TGTRLS(V5R3M0).  I suppose you could make a business decision to forgo 
this data as we have always done (or purchased third party software to
do 
so) prior to V5R4.

Question:  Did you do a trade?  Meaning, if you are transferring the 
software licenses from the 720 to the 520 you cannot continue to run
them 
on the 720.  Or did you buy all new software licenses?

Rob Berendt