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Hi, Pete (and Rob):

Thanks for the clarifications.

A true "Slip the LIC" should only replace 57xx-999 (the SLIC kernel), and not have to "touch" anything else.

But, what you are saying is that you cannot really use the old "Slip the LIC" technique to upgrade from 540 to 545 or 610 to 611, because those upgrades actually require updating more than just the SLIC kernel (57xx-999) apparently. :-o

If this is true, then those upgrades (from V5R4M0 to V5R4M5 or V6R1M0 to V6R1M1) should be documented in such a way as to avoid any confusion, so that people do not think they can "just slip the LIC" to do those upgrades.

All the best,

Mark S. Waterbury

> Pete Massiello wrote:
Mark,

We aren't saying that Slip the LIC doesn't work. We are saying that
WHEN you Slip the LIC you also have to slip parts of the OS. I have done
this on V4R4, V4R5, V5R1, V5R2, V5R3, V5R4, V6R1, and V7R1. Perhaps a very
more as well. I just finished doing one this morning on V6R1M0 to V6R1M1.

So, SLIPing the LIC works fine, you just have to do more than just
the 57xx-999.

Pete

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S. Waterbury
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 9:47 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: LIC Upgrade

Hi, Rob and Pete:

IBM has always supported the method called "Slip-loading the LIC" as far back as I can remember.

Are you saying that this no longer works, and you had to re-load everything? :-o In what versions and releases of i5/OS (or just "i") does this no longer seem to work?

Perhaps someone needs to open a PMR or DCR (or whatever) for this... :-/

Mark S. Waterbury

> rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hear hear Pete. I tried this with just the LIC. Then I had to download the OS. You know how long that adds to your downtime to wait for an OS image copy to download?


Rob Berendt

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