Can WDSCi v6 still be ordered?

Ok,
 
Here's the situation.
 
I've been working on getting the approval to use WDSCi v6.  Now IBM as gone and 
released v7 which
ordinarily I'd be happy about; however our development system is still on v5r2.
 
Since WDSCi v7 doesn't officially support v5r2, I'm thinking we may be better 
off running v6.  But I'm
not sure if anybody knows where the v6 media ended up or if it was ever even 
ordered.  We should at
least have WDSCi v5 media somewhere.  
 
On the other hand, Violaine said that v7 will work with v5r2 and v5r2 itself 
will be unsupported soon;
so perhaps we should just install WDSCi v7.
 
Can we even order the WDSCi v7 media if we don't currently have a box at v5r3 
or v5r4?  Would we have
to get an order placed for i5/OS v5r4 first?
 
If we can get WDSCi v7, does IBM licensing allow for down-level installation of 
v6?  I know Microsoft
used to/ still does allow this for some (most? / all?) their products.  
Assuming of course we can get
our hands on the v6 media. 
 
Thoughts?  Comments?
 
Charles Wilt 

 

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