Re: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101

["Clare Holtham" <Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan,

True, however IBM said when they provided it for V5R1 that they would not
provide it for V5R2. They have though....

Clare

Clare Holtham
Director, Small Blue Ltd - Archiving for BPCS
Web: www.smallblue.co.uk
IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Professional
E-Mail: Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mobile: +44 (0)7960 665958
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Bennett" <nabennis@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "SSA's BPCS ERP System" <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:02 PM
Subject: RE: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101


> Please bear in mind the QAQQINI 'solution' provided by IBM is temporary.
No
> promise that they won't remove the supress warning option where you select
> more fields than you have defined to receive.
>
> Ultimately you will need to change the code.
>
> Regards
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Clare Holtham
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:48 PM
> To: SSA's BPCS ERP System
> Subject: Re: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101
>
>
> Yes, I have helped several clients upgrade to V5r1 and V5r2 with versions
of
> BPCS that were not 'fixed'. The only thing you have to do is make a small
> change to QAQQINI to tell the system to ignore SQL errors. You do have to
> ensure you have all required PTFs beforehand though, and this means cum
plus
> Database Group plus any extras, check the latest ones on the IBM website.
> Also you need to run the STROBJCVN against all the objects, otherwise you
> can get locking problems as the objects are dynamically converted on first
> use, causing BPCS programs to fall over. The upgrade takes a long weekend!
> V5R2 is better than V5R1. It's a good idea to upgrade all the client
access
> at the same time. If your client has different languages on the system
this
> could cause a few problems too. If you would like more details or help,
> contact me offline,
>
> cheers,
>
> Clare
>
> Clare Holtham
> Director, Small Blue Ltd - Archiving for BPCS
> Web: www.smallblue.co.uk
> IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Professional
> E-Mail: Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Mobile: +44 (0)7960 665958
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Statt Craig" <stattcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:26 PM
> Subject: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101
>
>
> > Dear All;
> >
> > I have a customer that has heard not so good stories about upgrading to
> V5R2
> > while running BPCS v5.101 due to 5.101s inbedding of the SQL.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience in this?
> >
> > Thanks
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