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What You Will Find In IBM i 7.6 TR1 and IBM i 7.5 TR7

October 13, 2025 Alex Woodie

It’s early October, which means leaves are changing colors, nights are getting colder, and IBM developers in southern Minnesota and elsewhere are gearing up the autumnal Technology Refreshes for the IBM i operating system.

With last week’s announcements of TR1 for IBM i 7.6 and TR7 for IBM i 7.5, which ship November 21, IBM has committed to delivering a slew of updates and new functionality across the range of IBM i system software, from application development to administration.

Before we get into the specific areas of IBM i, let’s cover the general enhancements it made with I/O handling. For …
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Another Non-TR “Technology Refresh” Happens With IBM i TR6

May 5, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As you know, Big Blue released IBM i 7.6 and IBM i 7.5 Technology Refresh 6 (TR6) on April 8, with the expectation that both would ship to customers on April 18. IBM i 7.6 was detailed in announcement letter AD25-0031 and IBM i 7.5 TR6 was revealed in announcement letter AD25-0077. We’re all good there. And many of the features in IBM i 7.6 were backcast as a refresh into IBM i 7.5 with TR6, if you read the announcement letters.

IBM i 7.6 was available on April 18 as expected, but we know a bunch of people …
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