Re: AS/400 V4R2-R1 "downgrade"

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 04:27 PM 10/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anybody tried de-upgrading an AS/400 OS release lately?  We have a
customer that wants to move a system from V4R2 back to 
>V4R1 so their secondary system matches that OS/400 release of their
production system which can't be upgraded right now. 
>(Their s/w vendor doesn't support V4R3, and they don't want to upgrade
twice in rapid succession).  
>
>This process isn't documented anywhere that I can find (no surprise), so
right now I'm planning a relatively manual approach 
>of scratching the system, loading the OS and licensed programs, then
restoring the configuration and user libraries and 
>manually updating things like TCP/IP configuration and system values.
>
You don't want to do this (to be polite).  Although technically possible,
this is VERY difficult, and you will likely screw up QUSRSYS forever.

Al




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