Re: WAS V7 ?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Clients with the more extensive applications do primary development on 
the workstation using the IBM development tools, and a WAS server loaded 
locally.  They use a database connection set up in WAS to attach to a 
development partition for data access.  They also maintain a WAS server 
on the development partition that acts as an integration test/QA site.  
Integration and QA are separate server instances on the partition.  They 
deploy from the QA server to production (I think in that case they use 
Aldon change management).  The WAS server on the partitions are kept at 
the same levels.  The WAS server on the developers workstation my be a 
higher version for testing purposes.

The clients that have more modest applications have a WAS server on a 
development partition with two or three instances, Development, TEST/QA, 
or a Test instance and a QA instance.  Same server for all three 
environments.  That server might but rarely be a version higher than 
production, if only for a couple of weeks.

Keep in mind that you can run a WAS 7 and a WAS 8 server on the 
partition at the same time if you care to.  In fact we are doing that 
right now with WAS 6 and WAS 7 preparing for the V7R1 IBM i upgrade.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 3/15/2012 10:00 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> Jim, could you elaborate on this on the development side. or is it you just
> install it to match what your going to do on the host side as far as
> versions go.
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Jim Oberholtzer<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > >  My clients have all opted to stop at WAS-7 rather than move to WAS-8 as
> > >  part of a V5R4 to V7 upgrade.  The logic behind the decision is minimize
> > >  change as much as possible in the OS upgrade, then move to WAS-8.  One
> > >  client has very extensive WAS applications (replaces 99.9% of BPCS with
> > >  home code and database, one small piece left to go yet), others have
> > >  less intensive applications.  The complexity of the applications has not
> > >  been much of a factor in the WAS version decision.
> > >
> > >  Jim Oberholtzer
> > >  Chief Technical Architect
> > >  Agile Technology Architects
> > >
> > >
> > >  On 3/15/2012 9:36 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> > > >  >  Ok, I hope this is going to the correct list group.  Running older WAS
> > >  6.0
> > > >  >  on 5.4 and 6.1.1 OS.  Now the problem, 7.1 os will not support the older
> > > >  >  version of WAS 6.0 that we have.  Should I go straight to V8 or stop at
> > >  V7
> > > >  >  or just go to 6.1 WAS(this is on the host side).  Now how and what
> > >  should I
> > > >  >  do on the development side as well.
> > > >  >  --
> > >  --