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I'm thinking the Power 8's are plenty powerful enough with no reason to
wait.

<snip>
Sibley went in the direction of system design and high performance
interconnects, while mentioning the introduction of Power9 servers would
come late in 2017, with IBM i versions unavailable until early 2018.
</snip>
https://www.itjungle.com/2017/05/08/watson-puts-show-common/

And my totally baseless prediction is that 7.1 will not be supported on
it. Think about it. 7.1 hits end of support 4/30/2018 and the above says
"IBM i versions unavailable until early 2018". At minimum, it would take
a new TR of 7.1 and IBM says there will be NO new TR's for 7.1.
<snip>³IBM i 7.1 TR11 is the final Technology Refresh (TR PTF and TR PTF
Group) for IBM i 7.1.</snip>
Sure, IBM skated around this a little for some Power 8 stuff with Resave S
but no matching TR but don't bet your business on that happening again
with 7.1.
http://m.ibm.com/http/www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/techrefresh/i71.html


http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssm1platformibmi

Rob Berendt

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