OS/400 · 1999
OS/400 V4R4 out of support
Logical partitions (LPAR) and built-in VPN arrive.
- Announced
- 9 February 1999
- Available from
- 21 May 1999
- End of marketing
- 31 May 2001
- End of standard support
- 31 May 2001
- End of paid extension
- 30 November 2001
What it brought
- Logical partitions: several independent copies of OS/400 on multi-processor AS/400e 6xx, Sxx and 7xx
- Native VPN, based on IPSec
- Keyed media software: 13 products can be tried for 70 days and then unlocked with a licence key
- RPG: UCS-2 (Unicode), 1-byte and 8-byte integers, FOR, LEAVESR and multithreaded programs
- The last release with a one-step CISC to RISC upgrade, and the last one to host the Advanced 36 SSP
- AS/400 Toolbox for Java with JDBC support, and Net.Commerce V3
- EZ-Setup to configure a new system
Sources
- Release life cycle (IBM)
- AS/400e System Handbook: April 2000 Update (GA19-5486-19)
- iSeries Handbook Version 4 Release 5 (GA19-5486-20)
- ILE RPG Reference 7.6, «What's New»
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