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On 10 May 2013 07:08, Anderson, Kurt wrote:
I always try to call our system what it is, a Power 7 running IBM i
7.1. However, the Cumulative PTF DVD we just got from IBM says this:
System i5
OS/400 Cumulative PTFs
V7R1M0...
Made me chuckle.
I will not offer what is my guess as to why nobody has changed the
first two mis-references, but...
The conspicuous difference between V#R#M# and V.R will probably
remain. The latter was purely a /marketing/ aspect; i.e. for naming
consistency in marketing: "IBM OS\product Version.Release". The OS
however, still maintains the V##R##M## information as integral data, and
the support\service identification [e.g. PTFs] mimics that pattern
specific to the OS. There is little reason that should ever change, and
some good reasons not to change that naming; e.g. there is no benefit
for consistency in cross-platform release naming, for the ability to
search technical databases of a single platform, especially for which
the dot-separated-digits do not provide for a well-formed search token
that is conspicuously not just some decimal number or even a date.
Of course that does not mean to imply they could not *additionally*
include the proper marketing name on the service-related labeling.
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