RE: Going from v4r4 to v5r3 or 4 -- MIDRANGE-L

Al,

I think you may have missed the post where the OP mentioned he is on a
150 and can't go above v4r4.

Gary,

I'd think this might be a time to consider hiring a BP to handle this
process.  Standard upgrades or same level RISC-RISC migrations are no
that big of a deal, but this....I wouldn't want to do it on my own as
there is no IBM supported method for doing it.

Good luck,

Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

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> You have two options.
> 
> 1.    Do a scratch install.  Not my preference.
> 2.    Go from V4R4 to V5R1.  If you are going to immediately 
> go to the next
> release (and not do any meaningful operations, don't PTF, 
> except for the
> required PTF's for V5R3.  Then immediately go to V5R3.  Once 
> again if you
> are not going to do any meaningful operations, then go to 
> V5R4 and PTF.
> Note that both V5R3 and V5R4 have required PTFs from prior releases.
> Missing these is very painful.  Doing all of these convoluted 
> steps means
> that you will preserve all your stuff, including data in 
> QUSRSYS, system
> values, network attributes.  The last time we scratched (V5R1) was too
> painful to re-visit.
> 
> Not to preannounce anything I might say at Soundoff, V5R4 is the third
> release in a row from IBM that is very stable out of the shoot.
> 
> Al
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> Hi Rob,
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> Thanks for the input.
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> On 23 Mar 2006 at 8:16, rob@xxxxxxxxx (rob@xxxxxxxxx
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> v4r4 to v5r3 or
> 4:
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> > "Should" is a business case.  I figure these people hate 
> going through
> > upgrades if they are still running V4R4.  Therefore 
> whatever you start
> > them out on they will probably be stuck with for a long 
> time.  Therefore
> > I'd start them out on V5R4.
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> I will defiantly end up with v5r4 on the box.  The only 
> question is how I
> get
> there and how many hours it takes to get there.  I was hoping someone
> that has made that jump would chime in.   I don't know what 
> conversions
> (under the covers)  have taken place at each version upgrade 
> and if all of
> the changes will still get applied with such a large jump.  
> At the moment
> I'm thinking of following Jim Franz's suggestion and:
> "If you just want to load your profiles and libs, I would stay at 5.3
> (making
> the difference between the 2 boxes the fewest skipped releases
> possible),
> load your stuff,
> then upgrade to 5.4 and apply ptfs."
> 
> Of course I will apply the latest CUM on 5.3 and do a backup before
> loading any profiles and libs.  The down side is I'll need to 
> do a bunch of
> 
> testing three times.  Once on 5.3 to see if it was successful and then
> after
> I install 5.4 then again when I'm ready to update to the live files.
> 
> I'm hoping someone else that has made the jump will tell me 
> there wasn't
> any significant conversions done under the covers from 5.3 to 5.4 so I
> might as well just bite the bullet and see what happens from 
> 4.4 to 5.4.
> If I remember right there was some internal conversion done 
> from 4.4 to
> 4.5 and then again going to 5.1.  Is anyone in the know that 
> remembers?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Gary Kuznitz
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> > I have a new 520 being shipped tomorrow with v5r3.  I have 
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> > running v4r4.  Does anyone know if I should load v5r4 on 
> the 520 before
> > trying to convert from v4r4?
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> > Does anyone know how to convert from v4r4 to v5r3 or 4?
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