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Wes,

Even when you get your new machine, you will then have to do an
upgrade. There is no machine you could go to that would support V5R3 or
V5R3M5. You should look at upgrading to V5R4M5, it's a simple upgrade. I
did about 75 of them last year, and with the right planning, your downtime
will be about 7 hours (including putting PTFs on, and then at the end doing
a GO SAVE 22).

Once you are on V5R4M5, you can go to a new Power 6 machine next
year, or even if you stay on this machine at V5R4M5, you will have support
for about another 2 years.

Planning, Planning, and a little more planning will make the upgrade
smooth. Call all your application vendors and find out if the release of
their packages are compatible with V5R4.

Pete

Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
http://www.itechsol.com



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wes Reinhold
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:45 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: operating system upgrade

We have software support. Due to the ERP and other packages we have, I
am reluctant to upgrade when every thing is running fine now. IBM
informs me that they will support in a limited fashion. We have not had
any software issues in the last 4 years. My goal (like everyone else, I
suppose) is to make it through the next 12 months or whenever, till we
get a new machine.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Bolhuis
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:26 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Cc: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion;
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Subject: Re: operating system upgrade

While not likely *IF* you run into an issue requiring a PTF you are
sunk.
Will that happen? Maybe. But if you have software maintenance on the
machine you should simply upgrade to V5R4 ate least and V6R1 if you can,

and stay supported. If you don't have software maintenance you can't
PTFs
anyway so you're already flying without a net so going from "supported"
to
"unsupported" happened some time ago.

- Larry
Larry Bolhuis IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert:
Vice President System i Solutions
Arbor Solutions, Inc. IBM Certified Systems Expert:
1345 Monroe NW Suite 259 System i Technical Design and Implementation
V6R1
Grand Rapids, MI 49505
(616) 451-2500
(616) 451-2571 - Fax
(616) 260-4746 - Cell
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thank a soldier.




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We currently have an I520 at V5R3. We were planning to upgrade to a new
machine this spring, but due to the current economy we have decided to
wait a year. I understand V5R3 is being sunsetted in the near future.
Is there any potential danger in running the way we are for another 12
months, without upgrading the operating system? I need to put my
manager's mind at ease (hopefully) on this issue.

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