Re: Moving to a new AS400

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Dale,

this answers my questions...but you SHOULD have been able to keep your old
s#...but if you do your save/restores right adn with a bit of planning it
shouldn't be a issue...

Who's your biz partner selling you the box?

Don

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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 DNieswiadomy@co.livingston.ny.us wrote:

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> a.)  We're going from a P05 170 to a P10 270
> b.)   We are keeping the old P05 as our development machine and trading in
> our current mod 400
>           (which loses OS support for V5R2).
>
> Dale Nieswiadomy
>
> Livingston County Information & Technology Services
> (716) 243-7191
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> dnieswiadomy@co.livingston.ny.us
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>                     Don
>                     <dr2@cssas400.com>        To:     domino400@midrange.com
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>                     domino400-admin@mi        Subject:     Re: Moving to a 
>new AS400
>                     drange.com
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>                     10/31/2001 03:20
>                     PM
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>                     domino400
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> why did IBM tell you that you had to use a new serial number machine?
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> Did you ask if you could just "upgrade in place"?
>
> It's the norm to upgrade the EXISTING machine and the existing s#...so,
> why did they tell you that you had to goto a new box?
>
> (YES, I know that 5.2+ won't support alot of old hardware...:)
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> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 DNieswiadomy@co.livingston.ny.us wrote:
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> > We are currently running Domino 5.0.x on 3 AS/400s in a hierarchial name
> > scheme:
> >
> >                     SERNO1   (first AS/400 we put up-main certifier)
> >                           |
> >                           |
> >                --------------------------------
> >                |                |
> >                   SERNO2                   SERNO3
> >
> > By SERNO I mean serial numbers of our AS400s.
> >
> > We are now replacing the SERNO1 machine with a larger AS400  (different
> > serial number).
> > What is the best way to move to the new machine?
> > Is there a way of transferring all the information (data / etc) and
> certify
> > the new machine
> > in one process?  With SERNO1 being our 'main' certifier, will that
> > transfer?
> > Am I better keeping the old serial number around just for Domino and copy
> > everything over??
> >
> > Dale Nieswiadomy
> >
> > Livingston County Information & Technology Services
> > (716) 243-7191
> >
> > dnieswiadomy@co.livingston.ny.us
> >
> >
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