On Thursday, 10/14/2010 at 01:44 EDT, George Henke/NYLIC <george_he...@newyorklife.com> wrote:
> But will 6.1 run on a z9 or less? No, I've tried it. > > So for a "seamless" migration to new hardware, maybe it is not so bad to change > one thing at a time and keep 5.4. > > True, there is less risk going from 6.1 to 6.2, than 5.4 to 6.2, but "tomorrow > never comes", what happens today determines what happens tomorrow. > > The way IBM has configured things for 6.1: > > shorter expiration date than 5.4, > not much new functionality, > no hardware "downward compatibility" below z10, > > > 6.1 is, for all intents and purposes, a "dead release". > > Hope "Chuckie" isn't listening. Chuckie is *always* listening, and I concur with the thought that you should never upgrade both hardware and software at the same time unless there is no alternative. -- Chuckie
