Re: Upgrading R&D LPAR from V6R1 to V7R1 TR7

On 25-Nov-2013 13:07 -0800, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

I installed from a V7R1 combined OS and PTF DSLO image <<SNIP>>

I am not sure how easily I would be able to gain a better understanding of the failures without more directly poring over the actual spooled output from the install activity, and then reviewing the system at the point of the freshly failed install [prior to any recovery]. Lack of access to the revisions to the option and the OS, either via the IBM software source code or sufficiently descriptive PTF cover letters documenting them, makes understanding the origin that much more difficult.

My first impression is that the DSLO image has down-level SQL catalog [TABLE and VIEW] files in QSYS2 [XTND: extended base option-01 of the OS], as compared with the code-level of the OS itself. That is, the /recovery steps/ that were given for the failed installation, appear might be what is required to be performed at the system from which the DSLO image is taken. If so, the question would seem to be, how did the application of maintenance to that DSLO-source system go wrong; i.e. how came about, the inconsistency between OPTION(01) of the OS and the OS code itself on the DSLO system? IIRC, and if the implementation used to deliver the /upgrades/ to the catalog files remains unchanged, there are a number of potential origins, and the effects may be subtle, hidden, or essentially lost... unless the maintenance was applied using *IMMED apply vs *DELAYED.