Re: V4R5 Frustration

At 01:05 PM 8/9/00 +0100, you wrote:

I have been running V4R5 on my 270 for several months.  It's great.  No the 
270 cannot run at 4.4, because 4.4 doesn't have High Speed Link support. 
and you must upgrade the 170 to V4R5, otherwise QUSRSYS will get all 
screwed up.

QUSRSYS is a huge cluge, and IBM has no intention (as I can determine) in 
cleaning it up.

Al


>Hi All,
>Our 270 was delivered late Fri last. On Sat AM it was unpacked & up to a
>signon screen in less than 30 mins. (IPL aprox 10 mins). Awsome response
>times (be it only on system tasks at this stage) so we figure we'll be
>serving the fastest web pages we ever served, in about 4 hours time, after
>we restore some software &  web sites from our production 170.
>
>4 DAYS later & its all downhill. Can't restore *ALLUSR from V4R4. The RISC
>to RISC Road Map, SA41-5155-04 tells us we must upgrade our 4.4 production
>box to 4.5 and then save our data & programs. Come on IBM, when did we ever
>have to upgrade the source system in the past?  I've come from
>32,34,36,38,400 CISC to RISC and I can't remember ever having to upgrade my
>old system when I buy a new box. (The whole purpose of a new box is we want
>to continue client services & support at a lower level of OS and avoid any
>downtime)
>
>Anyhow the 170 at 4.4 is a 7x24 web server which we don't WANT to upgrade.
>Even if we wanted to we can't upgrade it  as no 4.5 CDs shipped with the 270
>(following soon!). So we're stuck with a 270 we can't use because we can't
>get our programs or data on to it. Even NT can't be this bad.
>
>Anyone any ideas? Could we run the 270 on 4.4? Anyone tried it?
>
>Mike Dunnion
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