Considering Steve Will and Tim Rowe are doing a session for COMMON next week
about "Latest Announcements", I think the cat's out of the bag when the next
OS announcement will be. There is strong rumor that it will not have a
version change, so that makes it a release change.
IBM waited a year to announce the EOS for V7R1 after the V7R2 announcement.
History is a good although not always accurate prognosticator......
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Subject: Can anyone guess when 7.2 will reach End of Support?
I was doing some perusing at
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1022027
A couple of things come to mind:
1 - IBM promises one year's notice before it will reach EOS.
2 - 7.1 has been at EOS for almost a year now and there is still no follow
on to 7.3. Basically telling us that they don't wait until iNext is just a
year out before announcing EOS of iNext - 3.
Based on this one could say that EOS could be announced on 7.2 at any day
with EOS one year following. So it could hit as early as 2020. I would say
2021 at the latest.
With the death of 7.2 what systems will no longer be supported?
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssm1platformibmi
Something to think about for your year end budgeting. But you can wait to
confirm with IBM's year of notice of EOS.
Rob Berendt
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