The detailed announcement of the more recent J49 offering is here.The second offering-the J49 offering-is newer (it became available in late November 2018) also provides monitoring for your enterprise’s Java installations. They both allow you to get service subscriptions only for the systems on which you want support, rather than requiring service for every system in your enterprise. There are two offerings available as of March 2019: 5737-F-J49. IBM offers support for the IBM OpenJ9 and Eclipse Temurin JVMs, through the IBM Runtimes for Business offering.Alternatively, An IBM Eclipse Temurin (OpenJDK with the Hotspot JVM) is available here:.The preferred runtime is IBM Semeru Runtimes, based on OpenJDK with the IBM OpenJ9 JVM.Oracle has been and is continuing to make their Java technology available under the open GPL license for OpenJDK, and OpenJDK will work with and is a very good option for your IBM i Access Client Solutions environment.IBM recommends running with a current update of Java 11. It is always suggested using the current update of a Long Term Support (LTS) version of Java. As stated above, IBM i Access Client Solutions (IBM i ACS) 1.1.8.0 released in June 2018, IBM i ACS is supported on Java 8 or higher.
