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  • Subject: Re: AS/400 V4R2-R1 "downgrade"
  • From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 8:51:27 -0500

We have a V4R3 machine as our development machine.  We are running multiple 
versions of BPCS on it just fine.




CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET on 10/14/98 12:12:41 AM
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Subject:        Re: AS/400 V4R2-R1 "downgrade"

There s/w vendor wouldn't be Some Stupid A%#wipe, would it ;-)

grnhornt@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> Has anybody tried de-upgrading an AS/400 OS release lately?  We have a 
>customer that wants to move a system from V4R2 back to
> V4R1 so their secondary system matches that OS/400 release of their 
>production system which can't be upgraded right now.
> (Their s/w vendor doesn't support V4R3, and they don't want to upgrade twice 
>in rapid succession).
>
> This process isn't documented anywhere that I can find (no surprise), so 
>right now I'm planning a relatively manual approach
> of scratching the system, loading the OS and licensed programs, then 
>restoring the configuration and user libraries and
> manually updating things like TCP/IP configuration and system values.
>
> Is there a better way that I can feel comfortable with?
>
> Erik Knudson
> Symatrix Technology
> Portland, OR
>
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