RE: Crystal ball: Fall TR

IBM (with some notable exceptions) has always supported N-1 OS levels, so
that would be V7R3 and V7R4 at this point, so dropping updates for V7R2 is
not surprising and good business. 99% of my customers jumped from V7R1 to
V7R3 (and the last V7R1/V7R2 upgrades happen this month) so at least in the
universe I see, V7R2 was the lost child in the upgrade paths. V7R1 was one
of those notable exceptions and in my view support for it was way too long.
It kept customers in stasis without any movement forward in modernization or
other innovation in their businesses.

We have a couple of customers left at V7R1, but those systems are being
replaced with non-IBM solutions.

Good business because it costs real money to support the OS and I would much
rather Dave Nelson (Director IBM i development) and crew concentrate on TRs
for V7R4/V7R3 than on supporting the older code. You can also bet they are
working on V-Next already as well.


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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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Subject: RE: Crystal ball: Fall TR

I agree it seems to me to be a little early to drop TRs for 7.2. I remember
the dark ages of no TRs for 7.1, but I don't recall exactly when they
stopped.