RE: Joe's V5R1 upgrade

> From: Leif Svalgaard
>
> I shall not try to spoil your joy, but it seems that the whole
> thing is actually a condemnation of the platform. If it is
> THAT hard to do what ought to be straightforward, something
> is not right. (And now I expect they usual comments about
> my AS/400 bashing etc, things that are unbecoming to me,
> etc). But, really, you shouldn't have had this long, trying
> experience in the first place. And in your heart you must
> agree.

Sorry, Leif, but I have no such feelings.  I broke the machine, and it was
fixed quite easily by IBM, over the phone.  In truth, had I not putzed
around with the list and tried suggestions so I could save a few bucks, if I
had instead immediately went to IBM, it would have been done Friday.

Try screwing up your registry in Windows and calling Microsoft.  See what
they say about restoring.  Try trashing your Oracle database and see how you
can restore.

No, I'm very happy with what happened.  The upgrade should have gone
smoother, but it didn't.  Tehre's a good chance I broke it by not following
the instructions.  There's also a chance that the instructions were easy to
misread.  Those things happen occasionally.  But since I'm one of the only
people on this list who had a problem going to V5R1, I'd say I'm a
relatively rare case.

Even so, even after I smoked my operating system to the point of unusabilty,
the machine is robust enough that Rochester was able to get me up and
running inside of eight hours, with no loss of data and no need to reload
from backups.

I can't really see anything wrong with this picture Leif.  I guess you and I
just see the platform a little differently.

Joe