RE: AS/400 UPGRADE

[Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For the hardware compatibility.  The older software may not handle the new
memory or dasd.  But again it may.  You your self warn about the
pre-requisites.  You do have a valid point about spreading the OS across the
new drives, but then there is the new disk balancing that is available with
V4R3 and even better in V4R4.  The V4R4 version is even better than the
spread when loading the tapes.  Also, they are only upgrading the OS so the
data will not be touched and not spread across the new drives.



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Sr. Programmer/Analyst   mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Allen, Stu [mailto:sallen@fellowes.com]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 3:32 AM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: AS/400 UPGRADE


Chris, 
Out of interest, why?
Extra memory would make the software u/g quicker, and the extra disk would
ensure that the LPP libraries would be spread over more disk arms...

Dare, concentrate on the s/w upgrade.  As long as you meet pre-requisites,
(which your hardware vendor should be able to confirm), disk, memory, and no
protection->raid are a piece of cake.

Regards,
Stuart
                                                             
Stuart Allen
European Systems Analyst,  Fellowes
mailto:sallen@fellowes.com
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