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albartell wrote:

For me, there is very
little reason, that I have seen, to upgrade to V5R4 simply because I am
primarily developing RPG and the only reason I would have V5R4 is to state I
am writing compatible code for it.

Aaron:

Can you clarify whether you were asking specifically about upgrading? or was the question more about keeping up with maintenance contracts so that upgrading is available?

In many cases, there's little reason to "upgrade". If everything's working fine, the main reason to upgrade might be nothing more than to stay just above IBM's support cutoff point. In many other cases, it's worth upgrading in order to take advantage of the cheapest performance enhancements available. It's almost always cheaper to get better performance through an entitled software upgrade than through a purchased hardware upgrade for example.

In any case, actually doing an upgrade is not quite the same issue as keeping the _right_ to do an upgrade.

Which one are you primarily interested in?

Tom Liotta

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