Re: new serial with V7R1?

[Dan <drothman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Glenn,

I think your Business Partner is giving you good advice.
I have seen a presentation including a slide from IBM Legal/Business 
Practices indicating that for a 2-step upgrade you do need to put the 
1st upgrade into productive use for a couple of months.

With respect to "repurchase the OS", for entry-level servers there is a 
new announcement:
"IBM i enhancements offer new cryptographic features and web enablement 
functions"
IBM United States Software Announcement 211-021  February 8, 2011
which includes:
"IBM i license transfer -- Clients can now pay IBM for the right, in 
certain situations, to transfer the IBM i operating system from one 
system serial number to a different system serial number within the same 
enterprise for POWER5, POWER6, and POWER7 models with IBM i operating 
system per user pricing."

I haven't seen the pricing for this - check with your Business Partner.

Good luck!  - Dan R.


On 2/15/2011 10:12 AM, Glenn Hopwood wrote:
> That's what we were told by our BP. They said if we wanted to keep our
> serial number we had to order a Power 6 machine by sometime in May and
> keep it for at least 60 days before we could get a Power 7 machine.
>
> Or, we could get a Power 7 machine with a new serial number and
> re-purchase the OS.
>
> So our choices are; order an extra machine that we won't use for more
> the a couple of months or re-purchase the OS. Seems kind of shady to me.
>
> Glenn