Re: Is 6.1 'beta' and 7.1 the more stable release?

Rob,

I'm not sure what your driving at, but both V6 and V7 are stable solid releases.

While IBM would clearly like to see everyone get to V7 as soon as they can, they still support V5R4 (for a limited time now) and V6. PTFs are built for each system. If an error is found that needs to be corrected in all of the environments they develop the fix, test, and release it usually in order. Most of the time a single developer or maybe a pair of them work on the fixes, hence Dawn's comment about one at a time.

The group PTFs are done much the same way, schedule one at a time, get them through testing and release them.

There is not a "Beta" test done with PTFs like they tend to do with a full version Release, so I'm not sure where your going with that. PTFs are fully tested prior to release, but that is different than a Beta test.

Where's the FUD? No one is trying to hide anything or discourage the use of one level over another, rather they discuss the advantages of the upgrade.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 5/17/2012 6:51 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Dawn,

Intentional FUD. Trying to discourage people from staying on 6.1 with
some misguided belief that since it's older it must be more stable. 7.1
has been Generally Available for over two years now.
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/suptschedule.html


Rob Berendt
-- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive Garrett, IN 46738 Ship to: Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com From: Dawn May <dmmay@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Date: 05/16/2012 04:22 PM Subject: Re: Is 6.1 'beta' and 7.1 the more stable release? Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Rob - nope, no beta, no testing. All PTFs when made available are expected to be complete. A developer can't complete two sets of PTFs at exactly the same time - so in general, you'll see them create fixes for the oldest release first then propagate the change to the most current release. Dawn From: rob@xxxxxxxxx To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Date: 05/09/2012 02:11 PM Subject: Is 6.1 'beta' and 7.1 the more stable release? Is IBM 'testing' ptf's on 6.1 by releasing them there first and then releasing the 7.1 versions a week or two later? Let's look at the planned release for DB2 group ptfs at http://tinyurl.com/db2group or https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/IBM%20i%20Technology%20Updates/page/DB2%20for%20IBM%20i%202012%20Group%20PTF%20Schedule and many of the enhancements match this up. Look at left window under functional enhancements. Rob Berendt -- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive Garrett, IN 46738 Ship to: Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com --