RE: V5R2 Quality - Notes from the field needed

Joe,

I think that your question is "Has IBM ever announced a new generation of
processors which did not require the then-current version of OS/400?"  I
think that the answer is no, although I can't specifically back that up.

On your other point, I think that you could ask "Could I run OS/400 V5R1
on V5R2 Licensed Internal Code?"  Again I think that the answer is no.
Hardware independence has not led to release independence between the two
layers.  The benefits lie elsewhere.

So for those who own the latest and greatest hardware platform in the
year it ships, they will be limited running current OS/400 versions,
whether they run LPAR or not.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Subject: RE: V5R2 Quality - Notes from the field needed
> 
> I am not trying to get into the LPAR dicussion; that's a little beyond
> me
> (although not being able to run multiple versions of OS/400 on one
> machine
> reduces even further the relevance of LPAR to me).
> 
> However, I thought that one of the fundamental ideas of OS/400 was that
> you
> could slip new hardware underneath the operating system without
> disturbing
> it.  I thought the horizontal and vertical microcode was supposed to
> allow
> exactly this sort of thing.  Haven't we had processor upgrades before
> that
> didn't require an upgrade to a new version of the operating system?
> 
> Just wondering.  Because if you're saying each new version of hardware
> requires new software, then OS/400 has lost one of the major benefits
> that I
> (evidently mistakenly) thought it had.
> 
> Joe