We shall see what IBM does, but the reasons for not dropping support on V7R1
came from several sources, and if you want to pay handsomely, IBM will still
support it. That said, the pattern over the years, has been to support N-1,
and usually that announcement was about a year after GA of the newer
version, so it would be about two years of N-2 support, then N-1, and a new
release.
Now that whole timing thing could be a relic of the past since the
introduction of the TR process which eliminated the needs for the M changes
(which were usually just hardware anyway)
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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
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Berendt
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 8:22 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Can anyone guess when 7.2 will reach End of Support?
How did you come up with this?
<snip>
IBM waited a year to announce the EOS for V7R1 after the V7R2 announcement.
</snip>
To me it looks like EOS for 7.1 was announced 3 years after 7.2 with EOS on
the 4th year.
If that holds true (but it does seriously vary) then 3 years after 7.3 would
be 2019 and the 4th year would be 2020. And that would be the end of 7.2.
Now here's something to think about. 7.3 is coming on its 3 year
anniversary and there are still those who will only upgrade to 7.2 as 7.3 is
"too new".
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Oberholtzer
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 8:50 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Can anyone guess when 7.2 will reach End of Support?
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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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
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Berendt
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:55 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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