Re: AS/400 V4R2-R1 "downgrade"

[John Cirocco <JCirocco@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik,

When you backup your system, do not forget to save to a previous release level, 
lest you find yourself unable to restore your user data.

John


John W. Cirocco
Manager, Data Center Operations
Computer Task Group, Inc.
700 Delaware Ave.
Buffalo, NY  14209
Phone - (716) 888-3566
Pager 1-800-283-2255  Pin# 12029
John.Cirocco@ctg.com
JCirocco@gw.ctg.com


>>> <grnhornt@ix.netcom.com> 10/13/98 05:27PM >>>
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.

Is there a better way that I can feel comfortable with?

Erik Knudson
Symatrix Technology
Portland, OR



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