RE: V6R1 Cume at V5R4 - plan well ahead

There is a PTF at V6R1 that is necessary before the install media images
will validate.

Look for APAR #II14310 (required PTFs for upgrading to V6R1)...

3rd section down in the document:

For upgrading to V6R1 using virtual media, the following PTFs must be
applied:

V5R4M0 - SI28697, MF42600, MF43154 (and I have handwritten on the page
MF43532 that I had to pull down for 2 of my 3 boxes)







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Jeff,

I'm not buying it. I sat in Jim Herring's office a few years ago with
several other System i expert folks during a certification test writing
workshop. He and the experts on his side of the table expounded on the
value of Image catalogs and that they were created as DVD-RAM (not ROM)
compatible. I believe that was the V5R3 timeframe and we began to utilize
them that way immediately.

What PTF level are you on your V5R4 box? I'm betting that's where you are
running into trouble.

- Larry

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Interesting. And I downloaded the files twice, with the same results.

The support person I was working with talked to a 'senior level' developer
who told her it was not surprising that I got that error, for the reason I
stated. Those DVDs should be here in a day or 2 and I'll see what gives.

Things just get curiouser and curiouser.

--
Jeff Crosby

Back up the bus. I keep enough PTF images laying around to sink a ship.
So I loaded up the Current V6R1 C8288610 on a V5R3 box! Works great. I

can

load, mount, and view the contents of file. This is an image that was
downloaded from Fix Central with FTP and is a bin file. Support for DVD
images has been in image catalogs since the beginning.

If you can't mount and validate your V6R1 PTF images on a V5R4 box then
they are bad or you need PTFs and IBM Support is leading you astray -
shame on them.

If you think about it most of us that do any number of upgrades do ALL

our

upgrades from DVD images created on a V6R1 system (where else would you
create them??) If I couldn't load a V6R1 type image on a V5R4 system

then

I couldn't do an upgrade!!

Something here is not as it seems.

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V6R1 Cume at V5R4 - plan well ahead


All,

New thread because a new issue.

Those of you already on V6R1: When you got the V6R1 cume prior to the
upgrade, did you get CD images or DVD images?

I've downloaded the DVD images twice. I can do the ADDIMGCLGE, but not
the
LODIMGCLG when the DVD images are in there. I get OPT1390:

Message . . . . : Error with virtual volume image.
Cause . . . . . : The image object specified for the virtual optical
volume is not a valid volume image or an error occurred when accessing

the

storage for the image object. The virtual device used for the operation
was
OPTVRT01.

Support is now telling me this is expected. DVD images are too large

for

image catalogs at V5R4 and thus cause this error. They told me I would

be

fine once V6R1 was installed. ARE THEY NUTS? I am NOT installing V6R1
without having a known good copy of the V6R1 cume inhouse.

Plan ahead because:

1) If you order SF99610 via SNDPTFORD on a V5R4 system, they will

discard

the order _without notifying you_ because you, in effect, ordered CDs

and

V6R1 only ships on DVD. (Hold that only ships on DVD thought). I found
this out 2 weeks after placing the order when I called in to find out
where
it was.

2) If you order SF99610 via Fix Central, you will download DVD images
which
cannot be loaded/verified in image catalogs on a V5R4 system. You can't
ask
to download CD images, per support.

3) Support can _mail_ you CD images of SF99610, however. So much for

only

shipping on DVD.

4) Though I've waited 2 1/2 weeks, support cannot expedite the order, so
it
will be another 1 to 2 weeks. Unless my support person can get special
dispensation.

.


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