RE: HSSFR4 and v7.3

V7R3 is not announced. It is merely rumor at this point. Most likely very
good rumor but rumor nonetheless.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: JAVA400-L [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 7:58 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the IBM i
Subject: Re: HSSFR4 and v7.3

Are you talking about this announcement
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%2
0i%20Technology%20Updates/page/Java%20products%20and%20options%20on%20IBM%20
i
or some other announcement that actually mentions 7.3? If so, show me
where.

One could easily test on a 7.2 lpar. Simply perform the following steps:
CRTSAVF FILE(MYLIB/F5770JV111)
CRTSAVF FILE(MYLIB/F5770JV112)
SAVLICPGM LICPGM(5770JV1)
DEV(*SAVF)
OPTION(11)
SAVF(MYLIB/F5770JV111)
SAVLICPGM LICPGM(5770JV1)
DEV(*SAVF)
OPTION(12)
SAVF(MYLIB/F5770JV112)
DLTLICPGM LICPGM(5770JV1) OPTION(11)
DLTLICPGM LICPGM(5770JV1) OPTION(12)

Perform testing.

If all goes to hell then RSTLICPGM from the save files.
QED.

For 7.1 replace 5770JV1 with 5761JV1.
For 6.1 you're screwed. You can't put a newer version of Java than 6 on.
This may be a REAL issue for those migrating from 6.1 to iNext.

Read your vendor requirements first. Many hardcode to a particular release.

When we upgraded from 7.1 to 7.2 older releases of Domino would not work
because they actually checked for 5761JV1 and it had changed to 5770JV1.
HTTP job log showed that quite clearly. It's not like they were checking
for a particular Java version. It was just their idea of a "prerequisite
check".



Rob Berendt
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From: Brian Garland <brian.garland@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 03/24/2016 08:35 AM
Subject: HSSFR4 and v7.3
Sent by: "JAVA400-L" <java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



I know this was just announced so no one is there yet, but will there be
any known issues with HSSF on IBM i 7.3 with java 6 being deprecated?