Re: V5R4 to V7R1 question

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're not crazy, but you ARE running a very very old release. Machines
that can run V5R4 are limited to Power6 and under, Power7 and 8 machines
dont support it.
You can get your machine up to v7r1 (which i assume you don't have the keys
for, since you are stuck at v5r4) and within the trial period migrate to
the fully keyed machine your vendor will use for you.

Best Regards,

Roberto

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Bill Howie <blhowie66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Quick and easy question for the group.  We currently are running V5R4 on
> our iSeries/i/etc.  We are looking at upgrading to V7R1.  At the same time
> we're looking at migrating our machine to an offsite location to be
> managed/supported by a third party vendor, which in our case would mean the
> vendor would be purchasing a machine themselves and migrating our
> applications to it as opposed to physically taking ours to another
> location.  We're hearing some interesting things from them that I am
> wondering about.  We are debating whether to migrate offsite first, and
> then upgrade to V7R1, or go to V7R1 first.  Our vendor is telling us that
> "we are having a hard time locating a machine that will support V5R4",
> which would enable us to do the migration first and then the OS update.  Am
> I not right in thinking that it doesn't matter what box we have as far as
> migrating between releases?  I mean, I think we could if we wanted to just
> put our current box in a truck and take it to the new location and then
> upgrade that SAME box and achieve what we're talking about.   There's no
> such thing in the iSeries world as a box that doesn't support previous
> releases, right?   Please, tell me I'm not crazy.  Thanks all!
>
> Bill
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