Re: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101

Nathan,

True, however IBM said when they provided it for V5R1 that they would not
provide it for V5R2. They have though....

Clare

Clare Holtham
Director, Small Blue Ltd - Archiving for BPCS
Web: www.smallblue.co.uk
IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Professional
E-Mail: Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mobile: +44 (0)7960 665958
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Bennett" <nabennis@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "SSA's BPCS ERP System" <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:02 PM
Subject: RE: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101


> Please bear in mind the QAQQINI 'solution' provided by IBM is temporary.
No
> promise that they won't remove the supress warning option where you select
> more fields than you have defined to receive.
>
> Ultimately you will need to change the code.
>
> Regards
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Clare Holtham
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:48 PM
> To: SSA's BPCS ERP System
> Subject: Re: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101
>
>
> Yes, I have helped several clients upgrade to V5r1 and V5r2 with versions
of
> BPCS that were not 'fixed'. The only thing you have to do is make a small
> change to QAQQINI to tell the system to ignore SQL errors. You do have to
> ensure you have all required PTFs beforehand though, and this means cum
plus
> Database Group plus any extras, check the latest ones on the IBM website.
> Also you need to run the STROBJCVN against all the objects, otherwise you
> can get locking problems as the objects are dynamically converted on first
> use, causing BPCS programs to fall over. The upgrade takes a long weekend!
> V5R2 is better than V5R1. It's a good idea to upgrade all the client
access
> at the same time. If your client has different languages on the system
this
> could cause a few problems too. If you would like more details or help,
> contact me offline,
>
> cheers,
>
> Clare
>
> Clare Holtham
> Director, Small Blue Ltd - Archiving for BPCS
> Web: www.smallblue.co.uk
> IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Professional
> E-Mail: Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Mobile: +44 (0)7960 665958
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Statt Craig" <stattcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:26 PM
> Subject: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101
>
>
> > Dear All;
> >
> > I have a customer that has heard not so good stories about upgrading to
> V5R2
> > while running BPCS v5.101 due to 5.101s inbedding of the SQL.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience in this?
> >
> > Thanks
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