Re: V3R7 to V4R5 Data Sharing

[Kirk Goins <kgoins@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all who responded here and to Mike Silver (who I talked to via the
phone). It looks like for now we will go the route of saving back to V3R2 and
restoring from that as needed. If we do more (FTP, DDM etc) I'll post the
results.

Thanks again

KirkG@PacInfoSys.com wrote:
> 
> We have a client V3R7 on  a 500. No SW Subscription and a cost of
> something like $58k to get current. This 500 and it's function will most
> likely go away in a year or so.
> 
> They are buying a new 820 and will need to #1 migrate a large amount
> (30+gb) of data and programs to the new 820. Once the 820 is up then maybe
> 250-500mb of data will need to be transferred daily both ways.
> 
> I know the official line is 4.5 won't support below 4.2 or 4.3 I forget. I
> know we can't use save files to go 4.5 to 3.7. So here are some questions
> 
> #1 Will 4.5 read save tapes from 3.7?
> #2 Will 4.5 read SaveFiles from 3.7?
> 
> #3 If a PF is created and populated on 3.7 on the 500 and the file is
> created and empty on 4.5 on the 820, can we FTP that file to the 820?
> #4 How about #3 above but create on 4.5 and ftp to 3.7?
> 
> #5 Can we get DDM to work between these 2 systems or are they too far
> apart OS wise?
> 
> #6 Other options?
> 
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> Kirk Goins
> IBM Certified AS/400 Technical Solutions
> DataMirror High Availability Certified
> Pacific Information Systems - An IBM Premier Business Partner
> 503-674-2985             kirkg@pacinfosys.com
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