Re: V4R5 Frustration

[Pete Massiello <pmassiello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You cant run the 270 on V4R4.  Are you current on PTFs on the V4R4
system, there were a lot of save restore PTFs a while ago.

HTH

Pete

MDC Information Systems wrote:
> 
> 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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> MDC Information Systems
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> Dublin 8
> Ireland      Tel: +353 1 6791330
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Pete Massiello
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