RE: Cisc to Risc

1. Make sure you have all your source.
If you are not using a source control program like Aldon's CMS, you should.
You will need observability.
2. Make sure all your products are convertible. Contact your vendors.
Watch out! A lot of vendors charge you for changing versions!
3. Make sure your backup tape drive will work.  Be sure to upgrade the tape
drive and the microcode.
4. If your drives are non-IBM (ours were IPL company) watch out!
IBM does not warrantee or even try to estimate the conversion time.
Ours took 2 days.

Barbara De Vries 



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Beck/UAF Bookstore [mailto:fybook@aurora.alaska.edu]
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 1999 4:41 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Cisc to Risc


Hi,

We're just now planning to migrate from Cisc (V3R2) to RISC (V4R4) this
summer.  I would really appreciate hearing from others as to the best
resource to plan for a successful migration (publication, video, internet
site, etc.), plus any "gotcha's" from your experiences.  We're moving from
Model 200-2130 platform to a Model 170 server platform, if there's any
"gotcha's" with such a move, we'd surely appreciate hearing those.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Mark
Mark Beck, Manager
UAF Bookstore
PO Box 750127
Fairbanks, AK  99775-0127

Phone: (907)474-5275
Email: fybook@uaf.edu
Web:  www.uaf.edu/bookstore
Fax:  (907)474-7739


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hemstreet <rhemstreet@mmbb.org>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, May 07, 1999 10:19 AM
Subject: TCP/IP printing


>We have set up printing to different printers (several HP models and an
>IBM 3116) via TCP/IP.  We have no trouble printing portrait, but when we
>print landscape (all AS/400 reports), they come out compressed and only
>take up about 2/3 to 3/4 of the page.  I had the 3116 hooked up as a
>Twinax printer before, and it printed fine.  However, as soon as I
>printed to it through TCP/IP, I got compressed print.  Any ideas on how
>to fix this?
>
>--
>Robert Hemstreet
>User Services Analyst
>The M&M Benefit Board
>V:212-870-3565
>F:212-870-2303
>rhemstreet@mmbb.org
>
>
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