RE: V6R1 Info

Not so much for developers but....

New fibre channel adapter
PowerVM/VIOS
Storage Space snapshots
I5/OS file level backups for Linux
Shared processor pools
Integration with Bladecenter enhancements
IBM Systems Director Navigator
ITJ performance improvements
DB2 enhancements including Omnifind
HA Solutions Manager

And right now I can't make sense of what they actually did with
WDSC.....But that is my short list of what I think is somewhat
significant....

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:24 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: V6R1 Info

On Jan 30, 2008 5:30 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

V6R1 Memo To Users

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/scope/i5os/topic/rzaq9/
rzaq9.pdf

So i've just read through the whole document.

Looks like there's a lot of things for developers to check. For me,
the most important changes are:

* i5/OS finally ships on DVD. Since i've used Image Catalogs for most
work anyway, it doesn't seem that big of a change. But having to deal
with 2-4 instead auf 10-15 image files will still make it easier.

* Looks like most stuff was finally rebranded. Everything's now called
System i

* System i Access FINALLY has a halfway decent installer, based on MSI
Technology. Maybe it will even support Vista properly now?

* It's now possible to share optical drives. I'm not exactly certain
on what that all entails, but it looks nice

* There's now a confirmation screen for PWRDWNSYS. I could've used
that one a year ago ;)

Otherwise, i didn't see much that seems to be interesting to me. So,
what do the rest of you guys think?