Molly,
It's an important release. IBM has added a lot of integrity things into
the system, because there are nasty people out there. If you have a nasty
nasty program on your system, it won't make it to V6R1 (more precisely - it
won't run).
Agreed, IBM isn't doing a good job of communicating it, and the analysis
IMHO is far more difficult that it was for either System/38 Migration, or
CISC-to-RISC. Hey, no one ran this design by me, which they did for
CISC-to-RISC, and then they had to re-do it! You have to run ANZOBJCVN
before going, and this is not well communicated. Prior releases that
required program conversion had different release-to-release transition
procedures. V6R1 doesn't. An out of control operator can just decide to
install this release some weekend, and drive your business into a bridge
abutment at 200 MPH! IBM has been way behind the curve at getting third
party software vendors up to snuff on this, but they are rising to the
occasion (they claim). I'm sure that we will hear more about this at
COMMON.
Also, a lot of save/restore enhancements. The issues with cross library
physicals/logicals is fixed (but you have to learn how to do it - no
biggie), and a big save-while-active enhancement which allows
synchronization between QSYS.LIB, DLOs, IFS and IASPs. (Something missing
since 1992.)
I suspect that I know somebody who will be saying nice things about this
release at COMMON, but I'm predisclosing *NOTHING. BTW, that person tells
me that if it isn't good by then, he/she will never lie.
The other question you asked is the significance of the new Version. New
versions are a figment of the mind of IBM. Every AS/400 (the real name -
buy don't run that by IBM) person knows that Version 9 is the "day that I
die". (Thank you Don McLain.) In fact V3R1 was just plain awful (IBM gave
be heck about using the word "sucks" when talking about it.) , and V5R1 was
substandard when released, but hardened up by the second c u m e package.
Assuming that V6R1 does harden up, it will be the fourth solid release in a
row. Somewhat better than M$.
Al
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Hi All,
I am fairly new to the iSeries market, but listened in on the V6R1
announcement (via webcast) by IBM earlier this week. My question is: what's
the big deal with this new release? What makes it so different from
previous versions? Maybe I'm missing something here......Thanks!!!
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