RE: 730 to 825 migration

Doug,

My gut reaction to the request is that your client is increasing both the
cost and risk of their migration.  This seems so obvious to me that I
really need to ask what problems your client foresees with upgrading the
730.  Is there non-supported hardware involved?  Are they concerned with
moving OS/400 stuff to the new platform which is leftover from previous
releases?  Do they want to run/test their new V5R2 platform while still
maintaining their V4R5 platform in production?

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse



> I am planning to migrate from a 730 at v4r5 to a new 825 partition at
> v5r2.
> My client does not want his 730 to be upgraded to v5r2 as he is
> concerned
> with having problems in v5r2.  He is requesting that I NOT do a "by the
> book" migration where the source system is upgraded then the target
> partition loaded from scratch from the save of the source system. I
> have
> done two of these "user data" migrations before but both were very
> small
> systems (600, 170).  I know the issues with QGPL, QUSRSYS, QDLS, IFS,
> etc.
> 
> Two requests.
> 
> I would like to hear from all of you if going from v4r5 to v5r2 has
> given
> anyone problem.  Are the clients fears founded?
> 
> Please comment on the non-conventional migration.  Is this a reasonable
> request?