Re: 9405-520 upgrade to v7r3

[tim <iseriesstuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

thanks guys. sad. was hoping for a test box that would be on same 
version as newer production box that can run 7.3.



On 12/29/2016 3:41 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> 9405-520 can only go as high as 7.1 as per
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssm1platformibmi
> And, even then, you had better make sure that all the hardware in that box
> is compatible also.
> For example, we had a Power 6 9406-MMA which says it will run on 7.2.
> However we would have had to rip out every card, expansion unit, disk unit
> and everything else.  (We had carried a lot of stuff over from Power 5
> days.)  So we upgraded to Power 8 first, then upgraded the OS.
>
> If you've only previously experience this at Version levels you've been
> <expletive deleted> lucky.  As you look at the chart above you can see
> - systems which would work on V5R2 but not V5R3
> - systems which would work on V5R3 but not V5R4
> - ... V5R1 but not V5R2
>
> So it's not like this is a new thing.
>
>
> Rob Berendt