Cisc to Risc Upgrade - Qusrsys backlevel

["Ashok Dave" <ashdave@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all. We recently completed a cisc to risc (model 320 to 640) 
migration (unload-reload). Once on the new machine, we noticed that our 
directory entries were missing. We restored the appropriate QAO* files 
from qusrsys and got them back. The next day, we noticed qusrsys was 
*backlevel. We restored it from our cisc pre-upgrade save and then 
overlayed it with the risc version. It came back as *compatible and 
everything looked and worked ok for a few days. Last week, I noticed 
that Extended Base Support was now in *error. Spoke to IBM and they said 
once qusrsys or qgpl becomes backleveled, you have to do a sequence of 
steps, including creating dslo tapes, etc but basically you have to 
scratch. AAgghh!
I can't believe a scratch is the ONLY option. They claim I can install 
extended base support again but we will continue to get problems of an 
"unpredictable nature". I believe them because we are getting various 
errors (exit pgm not found is one eg.) and when working through these 
problems, we always get back to the qusrsys backleveled issue.
We had a consultant assisting with the migration (and yes Al, we WERE 
following the roadmap but at some point may have installed qusrsys out 
of sequence - somewhere - somehow; you can slap me when you see me in 
Anaheim..)....any ideas anyone ??

Ash.
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