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i5/OS · 2006

i5/OS V5R4 out of support

IOP-less adapters, RAID6 and XML in RPG arrive.

Announced
31 January 2006
Available from
14 February 2006
End of marketing
27 May 2011
End of standard support
30 September 2013
End of paid extension
30 September 2017

Standard support Paid extension

What it brought

  • Announced in January 2006 together with the new System i5 models with Power5+ processors (520, 550, 570 and 590)
  • I/O adapters that do not need an I/O processor (IOP)
  • RAID6 alongside RAID5 for disk protection, and virtual tape
  • Network intrusion detection and wider hardware storage protection
  • Enterprise Extender (SNA over IP) and the expanded LAN console, with the Thin Console alternative
  • RPG: EVAL-CORR, XML-INTO and XML-SAX with %XML and %HANDLER
  • Zend's PHP on i5/OS, and iSCSI attachment of BladeCenter and xSeries servers
  • Integrated Web Application Server and 32-bit IBM Technology for Java, introduced with 5.4

Which machines it runs on

  • All Power5 and Power6 systems, and the 9406 models 800, 810, 820, 825, 830, 840, 870, 890, SB2 and SB3

Sources

Dates checked against the IBM life cycle table on .