Re: Downgrading a system from V4R5 to V4R2

Tough job.

The user profiles and specific authorities are the bitch.  You could pump
the user profiles out to a physical file by doing a RTVUSRPRF user by user
and then calling an HLL program to write them to a physical file.  You are
toast for passwords.

For specific authorities, you could do the following:

DCLF QADSPOBJ

     DCL ....

     OVRDBF QADSPOBJ QTEMP/QADSPOBJ

LOOP:     DSPOBJAUT &ODLNBM/&ODOBNM  &ODOBTP OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTMBR(*N
*ADD)
     MONMSG CPF0864 *N RETURN
     GOTO LOOP

For the devices, do RTVCFGSRC for each device to a source file.

When doing the restore, do the following steps in this order:

1).  Rebuild the user profiles.  You may or may not have issues as to who
owns them.  Specify that PASSWORD(*USRPRF) PWDEXP(*YES)
2).  Rebuild the device descriptions.
3).  Restore the world
4).  Rebuild the private authorities

Instruct users when they first sign on that they will have to change their
passwords.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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914-251-1234
914-251-9406 fax

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I need to downgrade an AS/400 from V4R5 to V4R2. It's not something I want
to do but it has to be done.

I can save the data libraries and folders to tape, specifying V4R2M0 as the
target release and restore them without a problem. However, the RSTCFG and
RSTSEC commands don't have that option. What's the best way to save and
restore the configurations and user profiles? If necessary, I can change
the
password to a default one and set it to expired so the user has to change
it
when he first signs on.

All suggestions are welcome.

Thank you,

Albert York
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