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  • 1.  JD Edwards vs. AIX 7.3

    Posted Fri December 05, 2025 06:29 AM

    Our customers were informed by Oracle that JD Edwards plans withdrawal from AIX platform. No support for AIX 7.3 and further releases. Any clue except migration from IBM Power platform?



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    Igor Novotny
    MHM Computer, a.s.
    Czech Republic
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  • 2.  RE: JD Edwards vs. AIX 7.3

    Posted Tue December 09, 2025 04:13 AM

    Igor,

    Hi, good day to you.

    What version of JD Edwards are you running?  Have you thought about switching to IBMi (same reliable hosting Power HW) as JD Edwards has been a long standing ERP on that OS?

    Regards, Steve



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    Steve Munday
    AIX, IBMi, HMC, CMC, PowerVM, PowerVS, Ansible automation engineering
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  • 3.  RE: JD Edwards vs. AIX 7.3

    Posted Tue December 09, 2025 07:40 AM

    Hi Steve,
    our customer planned upgrade to JDE 9.2 on their actual Power9 servers next year.
    But it's the last AIX version (moreover fixed to AIX 7.2) so migration efforts
    are better spent on switching to a long-term perspective platform...
    IBM i (as well as AIX) seems to have nice future from IBM perspective but what about Oracle's point of view?
    There is embeded Oracle Standard license in JDE for AIX, but IBM i licensing will be definitely more expensive
    even if it's probably less CPU demanding platform - 40 CPU on AIX required now (incl. HA/DR solution).

    Regards Igor.



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    Igor Novotny
    MHM Computer, a.s.
    Czech Republic
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  • 4.  RE: JD Edwards vs. AIX 7.3

    Posted Tue December 09, 2025 09:51 AM

    Igor,

    Yes, both IBM OS's have strong product pathways that's for sure.  Oracle licensing wise, JDE on IBMi uses the integrated DB so there's no "extra" Oracle DB licensing per se however, "yes", there'll be "Application" licensing.

    Take a look at this link (dated 27-Mar-2025) as it might help.
    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/jd-edwards-oracle-solutions-ibm-i

    All the best, Steve



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    Steve Munday
    AIX, IBMi, HMC, CMC, PowerVM, PowerVS, Ansible automation engineering
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  • 5.  RE: JD Edwards vs. AIX 7.3

    Posted 10 days ago

    Migrating to IBM i would be costly because your client will need to buy JDE for IBMi, go into a complex migration process, and who knwos maybe Oracle will later also decide to stop suporting JDE even on IBM i. So there are 3 solutions : 1) keep the present JDE 9.2 on AIX 7.2 on Power 9 or on an AIX 7.2 partition on Power 10 and keep using it for production, mayb also by developing other JDE custom modules, or 2) migrate to SAP  or 3) give up JDE and migrate to an open source ERP under RHEL 10 on Power 9 or 10. I would not hesitate to advise an open source ERP on Linux, there are many good ones. There are even some ERP with commercial support and migration assitance ( example Compiete but it's easy to find many more by searching) Good luck



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    Joel Bouard
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