Re: Changing Primary Langauges

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Kirk,

You wrote:
>I will be changing a system from 2938(English UL Only DBCS) Primary Lang 
>with 2494(Std Us English) as secondary to 2924 as the Primary. I know I 
>must first delete the secondary(2924) before install it as primary. I will 
>be doing this as part of a V4R1 to V4R5 upgrade. 

>Question I have has any one done this before and have an approx time it 
>added to the install? If at a later date the client wants to go back to 
>2938 I will need to make it PRIMARY and then re-add 2924 as secondary. Any 
>ideas as to how long that might take?

You currently have a DBCS version of the OS installed.  I don't think you 
can have 2924 as a primary language on a DBCS system.  You must have a DBCS 
language as primary (2938, 2962, 2984,  2986, 2987, or 2989).  2938 and 2984 
are DBCS versions of English. (Terminology is not quite correct but you'll 
get the gist.)

If I recall correctly, the only way to move from DBCS to SBCS and vice-versa 
is to perform a scratch install.  So if you are upgrading to 450 SBCS from 
410 DBCS you will be scratching the system and restoring your data after the 
OS install.

Why would you want to do this anyway?  A DBCS system is more flexible than 
SBCS and the environment for each user can be set such that they only see 
2924 as their language.  They'll never know the difference.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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