Re: Upgrade to V3R2

["Daniel Gross" <dg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Von: JBakerii@aol.com <JBakerii@aol.com>

>We are plannig to upgrade to V3R2 this weekend, and there is something that
>is worrying me.  I have read for months on the list about running the
>SETDSKCLN function before the upgrade.  However, EMC is telling us that we do
>not have to do this, and that it might take as long as 18 hours to run with
>the amount os DASD and the number of disk arms that we have.
>
>Are they telling us the truth, or are we going to have problems if we don;t
>do a SETDSKCLN?  The operations manager said that he has read all of the
>documentation that came with the upgrade, and did not see anything about
>running SETDSKCLN.  Also, last weekend, EMC came by on Saturday and made some
>changes in our DASD so they would work with V3R2.  I am not sure exactly what
>they did, and wonder if what they did makes running SETDSKCLN unnecessary.
>
>Anyone have any experience/opinions about this???

Hey, I don't even know, that SETDSKCLN exists, and we have made 4 upgrades from
V3R1 to V3R2 (even one from V2R2 to V3R1 and then to V3R2).

No problems occured!

The only thing I know about is a PRE-UPGRADE-PTF that must be installed 
_PERMANENTLY_ before you can make the upgrade.

Bye

Daniel Gross
Ingolstadt, Germany

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