Re: RE - Java 7

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  That link is a bit high-level.  Was the specific link alluded?:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-techupdateswiki/index.html
"...
_i Hardware and Firmware i_
 ...
_Technology Refreshes_

IBM i 7.1 includes an enhancement to make it easier to deliver hardware 
and firmware enhancements, using the Technology Refresh PTF Group. The 
new hardware-related and firmware-related machine code content is 
contained within PTFs in a single Technology Refresh PTF Group. The 
content is referred to as IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 1, IBM i 7.1 
Technology Refresh 2, etc.

If you already have IBM i 7.1 on your partition, you can install the 
Technology Refresh PTF Group (SF99707). Alternatively, you can install 
the resave, following the normal resave install procedure, and then 
install the Technology Refresh PTF Group.
 ...
"

  That last paragraph seems to imply the basest feature of the TR is to 
deliver a "point release" or "resave" via PTFs; even implying that the 
point-release\resave is still available, just as more traditionally.? 
So TR1 is really just IBM i 7.1.1 but with the capability of being 
delivered either as a resave or via PTFs?

  I did have to laugh when reading "Product announcement materials, PTF 
cover letters, blog entries, forums and articles all have their place 
and proper use to raise awareness and understanding of product changes 
and enhancements. While the previously mentioned methods of 
communication are valuable, they fail to provide a single point of 
reference."  So the normal single-point-of-reference one might presume 
to be the IBM i InfoCenter, is not; i.e. now instead, the "single" point 
becomes *both* the InfoCenter and a wiki at an entirely different 
location ;-)

Regards, Chuck

On 25 May 2012 18:44, Vern Hamberg wrote:
> As to documentation - the place for it now is developerworks -
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi - Scott Forstie has put up a
> fantastic page on technology upgrades. It should become the main
> site for new stuff - InfoCenter takes just too long to get updated.
>
> On 5/25/2012 10:04 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I submitted feedback (via that button) in that section of
> > Infocenter that if they're abandoning point releases and just using
> > TR's then they should document all this in there since these will
> > not arrive on the physical media.