Re: Risc Upgrade Woes...

At 03:00 PM 7/11/97 EST, you wrote:
>I'm in the process of preparing for a RISC upgrade and would like to  
>ask some questions.
>
>I am doing Unload/reload (201) and at the same time I am replacing all  
>my DASD (quadruple the total capacity).
>
>The Roadmap includes a step for deleting all unobservable objects  
>before the final save and another step for deleting licensed programs  
>unsupported on the target release (370 in my case). I have 5763RG1  
>option 3 (RPG/400) which will be replaced with 'equivalent function'.
>
>However, my CE has recommended I don't delete any of the above because  
>I will have all new disks on the RISC box. He says that if for any  
>reason we have to revert back to the original system, I can just put  
>the old disks back in and be up and running as it was in no time.He  
>also recommended not to exclude anything on the final save tapes. I  
>must say, from a timing point of view excluding my unobservable objects  
>and RPG wouldn't really make a difference. Space on the target system
>is not an issue either. 
>
>Now, I'm a bit unsure, specially because I read Al Barsa's three golden  
>rules. Could anyone help me out here?
>

You don't need to delete RPG, but you do need to delete Fortran, Pascal and
the like.  The DLTLICPGM command runs an exit program in these libraries,
which is unobservable.

Going thriugh the upgrade process, you ultimately do a reload of the
licensed programs, which will take out any of the old licensed programs.
The only ones to be concerned about are the ones which will not be replaced.

As someone once said,

Follow the roadmap.
Follow the roadmap.
Follow the roadmap.


Al





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