Re: Changing Primary Langauges -- MIDRANGE-L

What my client did have was 2938 (DBCS ) as the primary and 2924 as the secondary. You are correct if you have a DBCS then it must be primary. The client wanted to get back to the "Standard SBCS" for several reasons.

You don't have to scratch install. First since you can't have a primary the same as the secondary I deleted the 2924 secondary. Then using the Manual Install process for upgrading the system will ask you to confirm/change the Language code twice. Once when lic loads and then when you start to load the os. On this little 600 I did, it doubled the install time. After the base part of os was loaded you could watch the system DB journal receivers change every 2 to 5 minutes and the system did needed conversions.

thanks

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"Simon Coulter" <shc@flybynight.com.au>
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07/19/01 12:54 AM
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Subject: Re: Changing Primary Langauges

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Hello Kirk,

You wrote:
>I will be changing a system from 2938(English UL Only DBCS) Primary Lang
>with 2494(Std Us English) as secondary to 2924 as the Primary. I know I
>must first delete the secondary(2924) before install it as primary. I will
>be doing this as part of a V4R1 to V4R5 upgrade.

>Question I have has any one done this before and have an approx time it
>added to the install? If at a later date the client wants to go back to
>2938 I will need to make it PRIMARY and then re-add 2924 as secondary. Any
>ideas as to how long that might take?

You currently have a DBCS version of the OS installed. I don't think you
can have 2924 as a primary language on a DBCS system. You must have a DBCS
language as primary (2938, 2962, 2984, 2986, 2987, or 2989). 2938 and 2984
are DBCS versions of English. (Terminology is not quite correct but you'll
get the gist.)

If I recall correctly, the only way to move from DBCS to SBCS and vice-versa
is to perform a scratch install. So if you are upgrading to 450 SBCS from
410 DBCS you will be scratching the system and restoring your data after the
OS install.

Why would you want to do this anyway? A DBCS system is more flexible than
SBCS and the environment for each user can be set such that they only see
2924 as their language. They'll never know the difference.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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