RE: Upgrade to V3R2 -- MIDRANGE-L

I would say 18 hours is GREATLY exaggerated.  The time taken is based 
on the time for your normal IPL x 2, plus the size of your largest disk 
(in GB) x 1 to 2 hours.  The average time would be about a 4 hour IPL. 
 See info from below V3R1 PTF cover letter for MF14656 (you'll find the 
instructions at the bottom of the cover letter for MF16261, which 
supersedes MF14656):


Duration of the procedure
---------------------------------------------------------------
The IPL in which the scan is performed will be a long IPL.
The following calculation will help predict the duration
of the IPL:


(Length of a Normal IPL * 2)
   +
(Size of the largest drive on the system rounded to the
 closet gigabyte (G)  * 1 hour to 2 hours)  =
 Estimated time for the IPL

For example:
  Suppose the normal IPL time is 1 hour and the WRKDSKSTS
screen shows the largest drive is 968M.  Rounded up to 1G,
and use the information in the formula above as follows:

 ( 1 hour * 2 ) + ( 1 * 1 hour) to ( 1 * 2 hours )
     2 hours    +     1 hour    to     2 hours      =
              3 hours to 4 hours

The IPL time is estimated to be 3 to 4 hours.  Results may
vary.


PS - I have heard of problems from other users with EMC disks who 
upgraded to V3R2.
I presume EMC have installed any code patches required for V3R2 to 
their drives ?


Also, you may find the following of use:

OS/400 - V3R2M0 Install Checklist

NOTE: Trying to install V3 on a system with only 8MB of memory is NOT a 
good idea.  16MB should be considered a minimum.  For C04 systems that 
can only go up to 12MB the customer must at least upgrade to 12MB, but 
should be warned they may need a model upgrade.  A minimum DASD 
configuration of 1.2GB is also recommended.

1)      MANDATORY
PRIOR to installing V3R2 you must make sure the following PTF's are 
installed on your current release or the install will fail and an SRC 
error code of B600 6167 will be displayed on the control panel:
If you are on V3R1M0 - SF38709, MF16261 & MF10577
If you are on V3R0M5 - SF38710, MF15285 & MF10576
If you are on V2R3M0 - SF38708, MF15282 & MF10575
These PTF's can be downloaded via ECS modem.  When you order them you 
may receive a PTF that supersedes the above ones, along with 
pre-requisite and/or co-requisite PTF's that also must be applied.
Read the cover letters of these PTF's for instructions.
If you are at a release prior to V2R3M0, you can NOT upgrade directly 
to V3R2M0 - you must first upgrade to at least V2R3M0.
STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
2)      Order PTF SF98320 via ECS modem and check the cover letter that will 
be downloaded to member QSF97320 in file QAPZCOVER in library QGPL. 
 Read the GENERAL INFORMATION section for tips & advice prior to 
starting your upgrade to V3R2M0.
3)      OPTIONAL
Order & apply the latest PTF cum package for your present release.
4)      RECOMMENDED
Permanently apply all PTF's for your current release if you have time. 
 If you don't have time to permanently apply all PTF's, at least 
permanently apply all Licensed Internal Code PTF's (5738999 for V3, 
5728999 for V2).
If you received your V3R2M0 order more than a month ago you should 
reorder the latest PTF cum package a week before your planned update 
date, and use the new package instead of the PTF cum package supplied 
with the V3R2M0 upgrade order.
5)      RECOMMENDED
If you use the QUSRTOOL library you may want to keep the QUSRTOOL 
library from V3R1 or earlier, as many tools (eg. TAA) no longer ship 
with V3R2.
Save QUSRTOOL to tape and restore it under a different name after the 
V3R2 upgrade is complete.  (If you just rename it the new QUSRTOOL 
library for V3R2 will not be installed automatically with the V3R2 
upgrade).



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6)      RECOMMENDED
DSPSBSD QCTL, QINTER, QPGMR, QBATCH, QSPL, QSNADS.
You may need to refer to these listings if you find some functions not 
working after the V3R1M0 install.  For example, someone may have 
modified a subsystem to add an auto start job, or add another job 
queue.  Command defaults may have been changed, or default 
authorizations.
If you have made ALL your changes to IBM supplied default 
configurations in a CL program that you can CALL to reapply changes 
after the release update you should not need to refer to these 
listings, although it's always a good idea in case someone made changes 
without altering the CL program.
7)      MANDATORY
Make sure system value QALWOBJRST is set to *ALL.  (This system value 
did not exist until V3R1M0).  If it is not *ALL, make a note of the 
current value and change it to *ALL before starting the upgrade.
8)      MANDATORY
Install V3R2M0 - follow instructions supplied with your software order.
9)      OPTIONAL
If you want to load any of the new 'Clients' for Client Access/400 (the 
replacement for PC Support/400) that are not currently installed on 
your system - such as the Native 32 bit OS/2 Client, or the Windows 95 
Client - you should do so now, as they will not be installed as part of 
the automatic update.
10)     RECOMMENDED
Order PTF SF98320 via ECS modem and check the cover letter that will be 
downloaded to member QSF97320 in file QAPZCOVER in library QGPL.  (If 
you downloaded this in step 2, and this was more than a week ago, you 
should order it again to get the latest information).  This will list 
any HIPER PTF's that you should download, and may list defective PTF's 
on the cum package you are about to install.  If a superseding PTF for 
a defective one is not available, you should follow     instructions in 
the cumulative PTF package cover letter for omitting PTF's, and omit 
any defective ones.
11)     MANDATORY
Apply the PTF cum tape supplied with the software order.  If you have 
ordered a newer package use that instead.  Do NOT under any 
circumstances release the system for production use without applying a 
PTF cum tape package.  Make SURE you follow the instructions supplied 
with the PTF cum tape package carefully.
12)     MANDATORY
Do WRKSYSVAL QDEVRCYACN.  If the value is set to *MSG change it to 
*DSCMSG.  This is the new default value being shipped from V3R2M0 
onwards, and can prevent 'run away' programs that can loop forever and 
fill the job log if there is a device error in an interactive job.




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13)     MANDATORY
Do WRKLICINF and verify the usage limit on all IBM licensed programs to 
the correct purchased license limit, to avoid constant messages to the 
QSYSOPR message queue.
14)     MANDATORY
If you altered system value QALWOBJRST in step 7, set it back to it's 
original value.
15)     MANDATORY (If using Client Access/400)
Any passwords not changed since V2R2M0 should be altered (if you want 
you can change them, then immediately change them back to their 
previous value).  Client Access/400 (the replacement for PC 
Support/400) no longer sends passwords in the clear, but can not 
encrypt them unless the password was changed at V2R3M0 or later.
16)     RECOMMENDED
If you have modified the system startup program (see system value 
QSTRUPPGM - the IBM supplied default program is QSTRUP in QSYS) then 
you should run RTVCLSRC to retrieve the IBM supplied V3R2M0 version of 
program QSTRUP from library QSYS, and compare it with your custom 
version looking for changes you should incorporate into your version.
17)     MANDATORY
As soon as possible you must redo your complete system backup - or at 
least your SAVSYS backup.  If you have time it's best to do a SAVSYS 
immediately, then schedule a complete system backup as soon as 
possible.

NOTE: If you have written your own program to do a complete system 
backup, you must make sure you add the SAV command to save the 
Integrated File System objects (new at V3R1M0).  These include the 
directories used by the new Client Access for Windows 3.1 client, as it 
no longer uses shared folders (the CPY command will let you copy 
from/to your old shared folders and the new directories).

The command to add to your backup program to save all Integrated File 
System objects is:
                 SAV        DEV(tape_device_name) OBJ(('/*') ('/QSYS.LIB' *OMIT)
                                         ('/QDLS' *OMIT)) ENDOPT(*LEAVE or 
*REWIND)


18)     OPTIONAL
If you intend to upgrade Client Access/400 PC's from Basic DOS or DOS 
Extended to Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 you should consider reinstalling 
from scratch instead of running the migration procedure.  It's less 
prone to problems and will probably save time unless you have many PC's 
to update.



Document:      INSTALL.V32/TXTPROD/TECHSPEC
Last revised:  November 18, 1997

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-----Original Message-----
From:   JBakerii@aol.com [SMTP:JBakerii@aol.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, November 18, 1997 1:55 AM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Upgrade to V3R2

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???


TTFN...


John Baker, Field Systems Supervisor
SYSCO Food Services of Los Angeles
voice:  909-595-9595  ext 2555     fax:  909-594-8946
email:  baker.john.r045@sysco.com & jbakerfsa@aol.com - work
        jbakerii@aol.com - personal



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