RE: IBM i Strategy and Roadmap

Rob,

While I agree, people should be upgrading and moving to the newer releases like 7.2, and 7.1. There is a distinction between no new TRs and no longer being supported. The announcement stated that 7.1 just isn't getting any new TRs, it will still continue to get PTFs and is still a supported a release.

Pete

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DrFranken
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 3:45 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IBM i Strategy and Roadmap

Absolutely! This is biting us with HMCs and SWitches and and and.
Suddenly Chrome has just told me "Sorry Doc, can't talk to that switch no more." So now for us Admins that means keeping ancient VMs on our equipment to maintain ahem, 'older', equipment. When it affects every user in the enterprise that's not an option!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 4/13/2016 3:34 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

However, with IBM announcing there will be no new TR's out for IBM i
7.1, and the rapidity that ciphers are being broken and having to come
out with new ciphers, I question the validity of running 7.1 that long
into the future.
As we all know that old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" no
longer applies because of all the security patches coming out.
There's already a list of ciphers available on 7.2 which aren't
available on 7.1.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020876
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020594
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rzain/rzainwha
tnew.htm
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_71/rzain/rzainwha
tnew.htm

As you can see by the "What's new" for 7.1 the ciphers were updated by
a TR. Of which IBM i 7.1 will get no newer ones.
Disclaimer: IBM could always come out with new ciphers in general
PTF's and whatnot. "Could" does not necessarily equal "will".


Rob Berendt

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