Re: IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 7 available Nov. 15-CLARIFICATION on POWER5

Steve Will responded with these corrections:
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The next generation of servers following POWER7® / POWER7+™ is not planned to support IBM i 6.1 and will require IBM i 7.1, or later.

[IBM i 7.1 partitions]->(BECOMES)->: The release after IBM i 7.1 will run on POWER6® and newer hardware. No POWER5 technology-based systems are supported.

[IBM i 7.1 partitions>->(BECOMES)->: Partitions with the release after IBM i 7.1 cannot own any HSL/RIO or IOP hardware, but they can be virtual clients. (This support statement was already true for POWER7 and later. This planning statement specifically applies to POWER6 technology-based systems running (ADDED)->[the release after] IBM i 7.1.)

Language Translation Support: Starting with (ADDED)->[the release after] 7.1, the 5770-SS1 IBM i operating system and subsequent products will no longer be translated into Croatian and Romanian. The national language version feature codes for Croatian (#2912) and Romanian (#2992) will remain, but the text will now be delivered in English. The system multicultural support for these languages will not be affected.

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So effectively there was some 'oops' where IBM i 7.1 was used where 'The release after 7.1' was intended.

Also if you missed it, Colin Paris indicated that 'The release after IBM i 7.1' would be known as 'IBM i 7.2' and is expected in 2Q14.





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On 10/8/2013 11:01 AM, Gqcy wrote:

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POWER5+, as well?


On 10/8/2013 8:59 AM, DrFranken wrote:

I have asked people 'who will know' for clarification but it has to be a
typo. It would be quite a shock to attempt loading a TR to a POWER5
system and find out that suddenly it no longer works. For IBM i 7.2,
POWER5 will not be supported.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 10/7/2013 6:06 PM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:

On that subject, i noticed something weird:

"IBM i 7.1 partitions run on POWER6® and newer hardware. No POWER5
technology-based systems are supported."
AFAIK IBM i 7.1 ran just fine on my test 520. Does this mean that
starting on TR7 the LIC wont load on such systems? or is it an attempt
to move people off the old hardware?

Just a thought...