Re: Reasons to Upgrade to V6R1

Have you ever paid attention to Cozzi?

:-))

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R Bruce Hoffman
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:17 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Reasons to Upgrade to V6R1

well, damn... DB2 alone...

AES encryption on fields.
Precompiler support of IFS source.
Hidden columns.
Auto gen timestamps (for each update).
Expressions in indexes, not to mention additional, non-key fields on index. (Read LF functionality that DDS fans have been begging for.)
Grouping sets and super groups for OLAP (in DB2 for LUW since V2 in 1995, 'bout time Rochester kicked Toronto's ass! Can't live on EVIs forever.).
Order by and Fetch first on subselect.

and that's less than half of the stuff... Damn.

Less than half of my clients are still on V5R4M5. The rest... V6.
Cozzi mentioned stuff in RPG, but I don't pay attention to that anymore... <lol>.



DeLong, Eric wrote:

Aaron,

Since this message is weeks old now, I'm sending this off-list... Just
wondering why you say V6R1 is required for RTCi? According to this
link, V5R4 is the minimum release level.... Just wondering...

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rtci/standard/features/

Thanks,
-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 9:57 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Reasons to Upgrade to V6R1

Interesting you should ask that because I am actually in the process of buying a second IBM i because one of IBM's recently announced products requires V6R1 (IBM Rational Team Concert for i). So I guess I would chalk that up as one reason to go to V6R1 if that product is on your
radar.

Or maybe even more generically stated: Some of the products outside of the OS that IBM is coming out with don't work on other supported versions of the OS (i.e. V5R4).

HTH,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


Salter, James wrote:

I am putting together a document on why we should upgrade to V6R1.

Can anyone list some good reasons to upgrade to V6R1 from V5R4?

Are there any new features that you have found useful?

Links to where some of this is listed?

I do not need reasons like - to stay current on the operating system,
etc, just new functionality & features available at V6R1.

Thanks.
James Salter
Systems Programmer
American Cast Iron Pipe Company
phone (205) 325-3033
fax (205) 307-3833

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