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i for Business

Kim Greene  

This is one name change that went over extremely smoothly, in fact, I think it is the only name change for the operating system that has gone over so smoothly.  For a little background, the System i (AS/400, iSeries) has always had a different name for the operating system associated with the hardware platform.  When the System was known as the AS/400, the operating system was called OS/400.  The OS/400 name was kept when the system was renamed to iSeries.  Then along came the name change to System i.  At that time, the new hardware was Power 5, so the operating system was renamed to i5/OS.  We have had that name for the past few years, now along comes the new Power 6 hardware, uh, wait, guess we have to rename the operating system again.

 

Luckily they didn't decide to rename the OS to i6/OS, as you can guess what would happen when Power 7, 8, ... would come along.  Instead, the name has been shortened to simply 'i'.  Mark Shearer, VP of Marketing and Offerings for Business Systems, made this announcement last Wednesday morning at the IBM Town Hall session at the COMMON conference.  This is the first time I have seen an IBM executive get up in front of the COMMON crowd and announce a name change and actually get applause.  I think it helped that everyone knew it would be an endless cycle of renamings if the operating system name continued to follow the hardware version.  So now we have 'i' running on IBM Power Systems. 

 

The new name 'i', will also be known as 'i for Business', since this operating system is known for running business applications.  A positive that will come out of this announcement is that we will actually be seeing 'i for Business' in IBM advertistments, and no, it won't be hidden on some corner of the advertistment so tiny you can't read it!  Anytime the new Power Systems hardware is mentioned, all 3 operating systems that run on the hardware will also be advertised: i for Business, AIX, and Linux. 

AS400 forever

Kim Greene  

I just tried to log into a System i server that is currently not available and had to laugh at the message I received from my Mochasoft client.

 

 

 

They can try to rename it, but it will alway be 'AS/400'  : ^)

 

Check out the title of this blog, notice it isn't AS/400?  Yeah, the '/' character isn't allowed in the title <grin>.

V6R1 Program Conversion on System i

Kim Greene  

If you are looking for information related to the program conversion on System i that happens when upgrading to V6R1, you may want to check out some recent articles I wrote.  The intention was to have one article, but it ended up being too big to fit in the space available in the magazine.  The compromise was to split it into the main article included in the magazine and two web exclusives.  Here are links to all three articles:

 

"Preparing for V6R1, What to Expect During Your Conversion"

 

"The Impact on Domino"

 

"Tips for Working With the V6R1 Conversion Tool"

 

One of the biggest gotchas, IMO, is that the program conversion tool doesn't pick up the Domino libraries by default when estimating how long the program conversion times for libraries will take.  This would be a nasty one for customer to miss, as conversion of the Domino libraries can take over an hour in some worse case scenarios.  Even worse, if the customer doesn't realize that Domino gets converted because the tool doesn't report it by default, they may not find out about the program conversion until they start the Domino servers after the upgrade to V6R1.  Because of the time required to convert the Domino libraries, the server most likely won't start and could produce some strange errors.  This would not be a fun upgrade experience. 

 

Hopefully you will find these articles helpful in planning any upgrades to V6R1.