Re: V4R5 Frustration

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a kludge but have you considered borrowing another 400. 
Transfer your existing setup to that at V4R4 and then upgrade that to
V4R5.  

BTW I think is is not reasonable to require you to upgrade on a Revision
R4 - R5 to migrate the system.  
It would be more reasonable to require that you be on the same version
V4.x to V4.5.  I believe this has been the norm in the past.

On the other hand IBM is now trying to move the AS400 as fast as
possible so they may have viewed this as a reasonable time/cost cutting
measure. 

John Hall



> >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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> >
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