V4R5 Frustration

Hi All,
Our 270 was delivered late Fri last. On Sat AM it was unpacked & up to a
signon screen in less than 30 mins. (IPL aprox 10 mins). Awsome response
times (be it only on system tasks at this stage) so we figure we'll be
serving the fastest web pages we ever served, in about 4 hours time, after
we restore some software &  web sites from our production 170.

4 DAYS later & its all downhill. Can't restore *ALLUSR from V4R4. The RISC
to RISC Road Map, SA41-5155-04 tells us we must upgrade our 4.4 production
box to 4.5 and then save our data & programs. Come on IBM, when did we ever
have to upgrade the source system in the past?  I've come from
32,34,36,38,400 CISC to RISC and I can't remember ever having to upgrade my
old system when I buy a new box. (The whole purpose of a new box is we want
to continue client services & support at a lower level of OS and avoid any
downtime)

Anyhow the 170 at 4.4 is a 7x24 web server which we don't WANT to upgrade.
Even if we wanted to we can't upgrade it  as no 4.5 CDs shipped with the 270
(following soon!). So we're stuck with a 270 we can't use because we can't
get our programs or data on to it. Even NT can't be this bad.

Anyone any ideas? Could we run the 270 on 4.4? Anyone tried it?

Mike Dunnion
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MDC Information Systems
Merchants House
Merchants Quay
Dublin 8
Ireland      Tel: +353 1 6791330
http://www.mdc.ie
mdcis@iol.ie

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