Re: how many are at v5r4 in production?

> I asked a similar question whether v5r4 ready for production. No 
responses. 
> So I'll ask again in this way. How many are at v5r4 now (and how smooth 
is it)
> or have plans to upgrade soon? Have 2 customers who want to do it at
> end of May.

Scheduled for the middle of July.  It was originally scheduled for the 
long July 1 - 4 weekend, but the accounting  trolls need to close the 
books on July 3rd, as our UK parent refuses to recognize the legitimacy of 
the holiday ;).

I only have one concern after reading the Memo to Users and going through 
the upgrade checklist:  indications that system state programs that are 
not from IBM will not be restorable at V5R4.  I've seen this mentioned in 
3rd party literature, but if it is the official documentation, I haven't 
seen it.  Some popular packages have the odd program that runs in system 
state (DBU - 1, S4i Express - 1, etc.).  Yet when I call the vendors, they 
all tell me that the software will run in V5R4.  Just what does that mean: 
 

- that you can't restore a non-IBM system state program, but one already 
on the system will not be impaired?
- that you can restore non-IBM system state programs and the third party 
literature is wrong?
- that I've totally misunderstood what I read?

Until I have another chance to go back and look at it, I cannot rule out 
that last one.  But I do wish some of these articles would go into a 
little more detail:

http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs013106-story02.html
http://www.asu-columbus.org/ASUData/2006/Ohio%20User%20Group%20V5R4.pdf

For the present I am assuming that the big lock-out of system state 
programs will occur at a future time and is not implemented in V5R4: 
http://archive.midrange.com/mi400/200511/msg00013.html. 

While I respect Bruce, I just wish I could get a more formal notification 
of the implementation than an email.