Re: Upgrade to 6.1 or jump to 7.1 ?

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

AFAIK, being current in your PTFs is enough. Nevertheless, you can check
this link for your upgrade:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1b6c5ed39e84670648625740f007c74e3

<http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1b6c5ed39e84670648625740f007c74e3>
HTH,
Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok.  Sounds like the best approach is to go straight to 7.1. (My beta
> experience was positive as well so this seems pretty safe).
>
> Where do I find the suggested PTF's needed to go to 7.1 from V5R4M0?
> Does the memo to users cover that (6.1 and 7.1 I'd guess) or is there
> another way to go about it?  Looks like they are on cume 09321.
>
> Pete
>
>
> On 6/2/2010 3:44 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
>
> > I would not have any qualms about going straight to V7.  As Pete
> > Massiello indicated, most of the change was in the 6.1 upgrade anyway.
> > So far we have not had any issues with V7.
> >
> > Jim Oberholtzer
> > CEO/Chief Technical Architect
> > Agile Technology Architects, LLC
> >
> >
> > On 6/2/2010 1:52 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> >
> > > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r)
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> > > Hi Jim,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Looking at it a slightly different way, why spend all the extra hours
> > > > doing two upgrades as opposed to one?
> > > Actually, that's EXACTLY how I _am_ looking at it.  I'm a very busy man,
> > > and sacrificing my weekend (if not two weekends) to do an upgrade is a
> > > very painful proposition for me.
> > >
> > > So if I can avoid doing it twice, I definitely want to.  But I'm worried
> > > about exactly what Tommy Holden refers to...  I can't afford for my
> > > applications to not work because I decided to be bleeding edge.
> > >
> > > So I guess more than anything, my question is whether I can expect to
> > > have major problems from the "new-ness" of 7.1.
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