Re: Reasons to Upgrade to V6R1

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Now don't you wish you had been pro-active in dealing with that
orphaned application?

Just think, you could have made and carried out plans to replace that
app with either a new third party application or a home grown one when
you found out the vendor was gone.  Instead of waiting till now when
you hand is forced.

Not that I'm one to throw stones living in the glass house I do :)

Charles

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Don't know if it is as simple as that. Observability on applications is the
> big problem. We have at least one application that we do not have source, no
> vendor anymore and still be used plus we have to a bunch of others that need
> to be upgraded to get the observability before they can consider upgrading.
> Operations says they are struggling with this one. I really want V6R1 but a
> lot of work to get there.
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 16:39, Salter, James <JSalter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I am putting together a document on why we should upgrade to V6R1.
> > >
> > > Can anyone list some good reasons to upgrade to V6R1 from V5R4?
> >
> > Support for V5R4 will be dropped at some point. Staying on V5R4 and
> > making a direct jump to V6R2 will not make your life easier.
> >
> > Upgrading the OS release isn't much work - just ensure that all the
> > vendor software you have supports V6R1, install the OS upgrade, check
> > that everything works, done. No need to make a big deal out of this.
> >
> > If you have higher availability requirements (for example, you can't
> > afford 16h downtime on a weekend), then you can just run on your
> > second machine during that time, and switch back to the primary one
> > after the upgrade. :)
> >
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