Re: V4R5 Frustration

At 08:26 AM 8/9/00 -0700, you wrote:

You will screw up QUSRSYS.  I promise.

Al


>FTP the data to the new system?  Just a thought...
>
>Bob D.
>
>
>--- MDC Information Systems <mdcis@iol.ie> wrote:
> > 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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>=====
>Thanks,
>Bob Dobrowolski
>
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