RE: Announcement letter 915-050, November 30, 2015, various Power7 and Power7+ processor modules and core activations are being withdrawn

Rob,

Referring to processor activation, I have all 8 processors, but only 3 active for i5/OS.
Could a processor be activated for i5/OS after Nov 30?

Paul

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Subject: Re: Announcement letter 915-050, November 30, 2015, various Power7 and Power7+ processor modules and core activations are being withdrawn

I would suspect, now that IBM has enhanced the range of Power 8 models, that IBM sees no need to continue marketing new Power 7 machines. Or, why should people upgrade to new Power 7's when Power 8's are out? This frees up manufacturing to producing only one line of hardware.
As far as the processor activation goes, if it means what I think it does, then you should pony up and activate those additional processors before then, or plan on leaving them dormant. Although I don't see why they would do that. Maybe they meant they won't be selling any more physical processor upgrades.

We skipped Power 7 and upgraded from Power 6 to Power 8.
Upgrading from Power 6, and upgrading to 7.2 is what killed most of our old hardware (actually all except some tape libraries we've recently upgraded). I don't think upgrading to Power 8 from Power 7, keeping the same OS level, killed that much hardware. Granted, I don't think Power 8 supports 6.1 but if you still need to run on that you have some serious issues.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssm1platformibmi
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/suptschedule.html


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From: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/02/2015 11:25 PM
Subject: Announcement letter 915-050, November 30, 2015, various
Power7 and Power7+ processor modules and core activations are being
withdrawn
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



How will this impact Power7 and Power7+ users?
Do we need to consider an upgrade to Power8?

In a separate and unrelated development, IBM is giving customers who might
want to buy Power7 and Power7+ systems, peripherals for them, or feature
conversions related to them that it will be pulling the plug on a bunch of
iron this coming November 30. In announcement letter 915-050, various
Power7 and Power7+ processor modules and core activations are being
withdrawn, and so are vintage Power 710, Power 730, Power 740, Power 770,
Power 780, and Power 795 machines based on these processors

Thank You
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