Was just reviewing the release lifecycle...
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/suptschedule.html
A little bit surprised that IBM hasn't announced an EOS date for v5r4 yet...
Given that IBM gives 12 months notice, v5r4 has at least 12 months left...
Looks like IBM has, for the last few releases, tended to end support
about 18months after the end of marketing....that could mean v5r4 will
make it to July 2012...
But since we've seen a new release about every 2 years, supporting
v5r4 till July 2012 would mean IBM would be supporting 4 versions (5
if you count the support extension for v5r3)...
Looking at v3r2, the last CISC release, EOS came only 3 months after EOM.
I'm thinking v5r4 might not make it through 2011....
Charles
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