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Gord, You are correct. V5R3 is the end of the line for all models 7xx and 170. Why? Two reasons: 1). IBM made the mistake of making every System/38, and every CISC AS/400 run every release ever. This was a problem, because when we got to V3R2 of OS/400, the old "B" models didn't have the horsepower to run the newly added function adequately. (IBM even made a commercial, although it never aired, about the B30 that I located in a closet that ran for six years with no backup, no nothing. With the system value QPWRRSTIPL set to '1', it even survived a power failure, although the A/C never restarted. If any one wants the .RM of the commercial, send me a private note. It's about a 4MB attachment) Two sub-reasons here; a). The older, less powerful CPU's just don't cut it today. b). The older, slower, I/O, also just doesn't cut it. 2). IBM is a business, and they need to make money. (Not a bad thing for a company to do, Sam wants to keep his job; look what happened to Carly, and HP's an iSeries customer [my software customer!] from the COMPAQ acquisition!) IBM made the mistake of making the AS/400-iSeries-i5 (and it's rumored that they have trademarks on i6, i7, i8 and i9, although I have not confirmed this personally) so reliable that it never breaks (for all practical purposes), so unlike in a Windoze environment where stuff breaks constantly, customers don't feel the need to execute the SPENDMONEY command (*BADCMD). The bad logic solution would be for IBM to write a BLUESCREENOFDEATH command, but that's not going to happen. The system (whatever the @#$% you want to call it) continues to be the best computing platform ever, it's just that no one at IBM wants this to get out. Keep not telling people, and maybe it will go away. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z" e gads Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor! 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com http://www.as400connection.com Gord Hutchinson <gordm1@tstoverla nd.com> To Sent by: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx midrange-l-bounce cc s@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject Highest OS Level for Hardware 02/16/2005 02:54 PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midra nge.com> I am pretty sure that I saw an IBM web page which said a 720 would not run on any version of os400 after v5r3. It also listed other hardware and how high they could go. I cannot find my bookmark for the page nor can I find it in a search on the IBM sites or the midrange archives. Has anyone else seen such a page? Or am I smoking the cheap drugs again? Thanks, Gord -- Gord Hutchinson Database Administrator, IT TST Overland Express ghutchinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 905-212-6330 fax: 905-602-8895 -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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