Thursday, September 12, 2019

End of support for IBM i 7.2 is announced

end of life for ibmi release 7.2 in 2021

On September 10 IBM announced the end of marketing of IBM i 7.2 on April 30, 2020, and the end of support for this release effective April 30, 2021.

IBM i 7.2 was released in May 2014, and by 2021 it will have had a life of 7 years.

If you have partitions running IBM i 7.2 it is time to determine if your Power server can support the newer releases 7.3 and 7.4, and if it does to start making plans upgrade to one of those newer releases.

You can read the announcement document from IBM here.

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