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A question for the group. I was asked this yesterday, thankfully not by our auditors. When you upgrade the firmware on an iSeries, what constitutes sufficient testing that the upgrade 'worked' and that no problems arose from the install? The best answer I could come up with was that if you're specifically upgrading to fix a bug then you can test to see if the bug was fixed. Alternately if a new feature was made available you could test that feature. But beyond that we're basically updating for the sake of staying current. Other than the machine still running I've nothing to really use as a test. BTW, to non-iSeries folks I usually say that the iSeries firmware is like a x86 server's BIOS + VMWare. It seems the closest analogy I can find that they readily understand.
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