Re: RE - Java 7

I would respectfully disagree that the TRs are Hardware Only. For example I did a session at COMMON on the networking enhancements in TR3. These enhancements work on any hardware supported by IBM i 7.1 and on networking adapters that are so old they lay on the shelves of the Frankenlab, so they are certainly not hardware only updates.

Clearly supporting new hardware is one of the things that TRs bring to the system but they are not the only thing!!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 5/25/2012 9:42 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:

Strictly speaking, TRs are hardware-only - things that are added to the
OS to let it work with new hardware.

But IBM is putting out software changes on the same schedule - so even
IBMers tend to speak of the whole thing as a TR. The schedule tends to
be twice a year, and they can focus on certain functional areas maybe
every other TR-time, maybe with more general items in between. Something
like that, anyhow.

This way of doing fixes does have some advantages - we no longer have to
wait for major releases to get new and interesting functionality. So we
get new database stuff without having to wait for the 7.2 release -
whatever the next one is.

At least that's what they've told us in some meetings!!

Vern

On 5/25/2012 10:04 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I submitted feedback (via that button) in that section of Infocenter that
if they're abandoning point releases and just using TR's then they should
document all this in there since these will not arrive on the physical
media.


Rob Berendt