Re: V6R1 Migration

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your 520-7142 should easily run IBM I 6.1 (it also supports 7.1) With a 
light workload your 2GB memory will be acceptable but more would (as 
always) be better.  You have plenty of disk space as well.

    - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

P.S. you have a "System i" not an "AS/400" :-)

On 3/28/2011 10:16 AM, EDoxtator wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Just trying to confirm something regarding the migration path from V5R4 ->
> V6R1.  I have a smallish AS/400 sitting in the back room with the following
> spec:
>
>
> Model:  AS/400 520-7142
> Processor:  PowerPC III 600 MHz
> OS:  OS400 V5 R4
> Memory:  4 x 512 MB RAM Memory, 2GB total
> Hard Disk:  5 disk drives totaling 282 GB disk space, with approximately 20%
> usage
>
> As I understood it, the 520's can be upgraded to V6R1, but I am not 100% sure
> that this machine falls into that group.  How do I confirm this?  (IBM isn't
> much help-- they're trying very hard to sell us a new computer.)
>
>
> The codebase is a mix of S/36, RPG/400, and ILE RPG.  This machine does light
> lifting, receiving batch updates and very light 5250 traffic (mostly for
> inquiry-- very few update transactions occurring).  If there are any fixes that
> are done, they are break/fix only.  No feature enhancements.
>
>
>
> I'm not sure that it's worth upgrading to V6R1, even if it is possible.
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Doc