RE: Remote upgrade of iSeries

We bought a new dual-partition 520 at V5R3 to replace our 830
(production) and 30S (development) machines on V5R1. We are in New
Orleans, and the new machine is in Dallas (part of our disaster
planning). We did two complete backups and drove the tapes up there
ourselves to restore them on the new box.

One thing I discovered in a hurry: if you have any FTP stuff going on
between your AS/400 and your other servers, make sure they have good
error recovery. Things are not quite as reliable (until all the
firewalls and VPNs get set up properly) when the servers are now 500
miles further apart.

Francis Lapeyre
IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
E-mail: flapeyre@xxxxxxxx 


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Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:09 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Remote upgrade of iSeries

Hello everyone,

Has anyone been involved in version/release upgrade from a central site
to
a remote site.  The company I work for is contemplating doing this for
some
of our customers.



Sincerely,


Bill Swann





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