Attn 7.1 users who plan on staying there for an indefinite time

I recommend that 7.1 users download JDK 7 and JDK 8 from ESS (before EOS
of 7.1 on April 30, 2018) and get those installed on to their IBM i.
IBM will drop support for JDK 6 after December 31, 2017.
IBM i 7.3 does not support JDK 6 at all.
Therefore, your vendors may come out with a version which may require that
you upgrade your JDK.
These versions of JDK are not on your distribution media and must be
ordered directly from ESS (aka Entitled Systems Support)
http://www-304.ibm.com/servers/eserver/ess/OpenServlet.wss
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Rob Berendt