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Im working with a an iSeries Power 7+ server and the operating system is V7R2, is this a version of AIX or a completely different OS?

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It is one of the operating systems supported on IBM Power Systems alongside AIX and Linux as well as on IBM PureSystems alongside AIX, Linux and Windows. source

V7R1,2,3 is a sucessor of OS/400.

A fact on the name;

When IBM announced the new Power Systems line of servers on April 2, 2008, they renamed the operating system from i5/OS to IBM i[3] and changed the version identifier format from VxRxMx (Version, Release, Modification, e.g. V6R1M0) to the more standard format (e.g. 6.1).

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AIX and OS/400 are two completely different animals. The only significant relation between the two are that they are both developed by IBM.

AIX is IBM's version of UNIX. OS/400 (i5/Os) is not a Unix operating system. It is the successor to IBM's System 36/38, completely different operating system.

OS/400 does have a Unix based shell that can be used to port and run AIX applications, but that is about it.

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