RE: New system Install check list

Rob,

Taking a page from your book, I opened a PMR with the same question.

The reply I got back was, "The New System Install check list is no
longer used. The best resources are the Install Guide, SC41-5120-07 for
V5R3 and the InfoCenter."

Good point about QCTL vs. QBASE and Domino servers, the checklist I
remember discussed when to use one over the other.  I would hope that an
updated checklist, if it existed, would cover your Domino Server-only
scenario.

It seems to me that IBM doesn't expect new customers to configure a
system themselves anymore.  If they don't have prior experience with the
iSeries, then they had better be paying for a consultant.  I disagree
with this idea.  I can see the point, but on the flip side, if you're
new to a system and you're going to have to admin it, then you'd better
learn enough to set it up in the first place.  After all, the smaller
boxes are supposed to be "customer installable" right?

Ez-setup, assuming the links worked, would be close.  But while it
covers the "new" stuff like TCP/IP networking, email, web server,
internet connectivity, it leaves out the "old" stuff like choosing a
controlling subsystem and setting the system name.


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

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> Something like:
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rz
> ahc/fastpathrzahc.htm
> 
> Although that doesn't do much of what you asked.
> 
> I wonder if that turning over that stuff to a "basic user" 
> can do more 
> harm than good.  For instance there are a lot of old AS/400 
> people that 
> still think that the primary purpose of an i5 is to run your 
> traditional 
> back office applications:  ERP, payroll, etc.  They follow 
> that one of the 
> first things you should do is to change your controlling subsystem to 
> QCTL.  However, for several of our machines that run only 
> Domino, etc., 
> changing to that value makes no sense at all.  There is no need for 
> interactive processing.  They do nothing in the QBATCH 
> subsystem.  So why 
> fire up those two?
> Granted, some may think that this is a covert method to make more 
> consulting dollars by burying this checklist, but I don't think so.
> 
> I've never tried the EZ Setup wizard.  If I were you, I would 
> definitely 
> submit feedback.
> 
> Rob Berendt
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> All,
> 
> Back when I installed my first AS/400 (a model 400 in 1996 
> running v3r6)
> which was also my then employer's first AS/400 I remember working
> through a "New System Install" check list.
> 
> I'm trying to find the equivalent check list now.
> 
> I'm not talking about the software installation checklist for actually
> installing the OS.  The checklist I'm talking about was more 
> like first
> time system configuration.  A couple things on the list I 
> remember were:
> 
> 1) Determining controlling subsystem
> 2) Changing your system name (CHGNETA)
> 
> In addition, I believe there may have be some network configuration
> steps also.
> 
> I've taken a look at the EZ-Setup Wizard, but it doesn't seem to cover
> the tasks above or anything related.  Not to mention the fact that the
> links from the EZ-Setup Wizard into the information center don't even
> work.
> 
> Does anyone know if the checklist I'm remembering still exists?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Charles Wilt
> --
> iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> ph: 513-573-4343
> fax: 513-398-1121
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