RE: V5R4 upgrade

John,

As Evan stated earlier, V7R1 should support twinax, but Power7 will not.

Supported console options for IBM i 7.1
On POWER5 or POWER6 systems, supported console interfaces include the
following options:
 Operations Console LAN attached
 Twinax console (which is IOP-based)
 HMC managed console
POWER6 does not support any IOPs in the central processor complex. Therefore, any
IOP-based interface, such as Twinax, must be placed in an HSL attached IO drawer and an
HMC is required to tag the console location.

Support: Operations Console Direct attached and Twinax console are not supported on
any POWER7 processor-based server. IBM i console options on POWER7 consist of
either Operations Console LAN attached or HMC managed console

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John McKee
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 6:47 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: V5R4 upgrade

Thank you for the clarification as to supported hardware. I tried several searches but got it wrong.

Comments about vendor supported software is already on my list. Been through that with move to v4r2 a long time ago. A lot fewer vendors are involved now. We were behind on operating system back then. All vendors had moved on. Might be the same issue now, considering the gray hair on
v5r4 - but, as Rob has related, vendors do drag feet.

John McKee


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Twinax going away relates to hardware changes on later Power models.
You won't lose twinax connectivity simply as a result of the upgrade.

You need to establish specifically that all your vendors software is
supported V7R1. Finding out afterwards there is an issue would not be
a good situation.




On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM, John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Helpful idea. The stuff that didn't pass ANZOBJCVN at least had
very old version info.

Chatted with boss. His concern is whether vendor software works at 7.1.

I

see no reason it wouldn't. But, won't hurt to check.

We do have a 6262-T22 Line printer with twinax interface. I know I
read

on

some post that something went away on 7.1 I have not found Rob's
post about it yet. That WOULD be a show stopper for 7.1. If I
could only recall what Rob referred to - makes searching easier for one thing.

John McKee


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Eric Lehti
<elehti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Object conversion sets use count and Last-used date to zero.

I recommend that before you do the object conversion that you
DSPOBJD *FULL all your libraries where you store software and
data. That will preserve for you the *USE count info that you
like. Last-Used is handy to keep a record of.

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