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  3. February 2011

Re: new serial with V7R1?

You can, but since there is no upgrade path from POWER5 to POWER7 (thanks to IRS rules, not IBM) you would have to do the double bump in order to maintain your serial number.

If the serial number is not important, then you can simply move your LPPs to the new box and go for it.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 2/15/2011 8:21 AM, Glenn Hopwood wrote:
Larry,

Can you expand on this? We are currently on a Power 5+ and would like to
get to a Power 7. I don't see a technical reason why we can't go
straight to the 7...

Glenn

On 2/11/2011 11:16 PM, DrFranken wrote:
> If you have a POWER5 or 5+ machine you can already run IBM i 7.1 so
> you're good. But on the other hand if you want to get up to POWER7 then
> you would need to either upgrade to POWER6 and THEN to POWER7 (two
> steps) to keep the same serial number or you buy a new POWER7 and get a
> new serial number.

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