RE: Install of New iSeries at 5.1 or 5.2

You can bet that they'll charge you twice. They tried that on one of my
customers who was left at 3.7 by their BP. IBM told them that the only
way they'd provide the CD's to upgrade to 4.3, and then to 4.5, was to
have a CE perform the upgrade at >$200/hour. Thanks to someone on this
list who had the 3.7 to 4.3 upgrade CD's I was able to perform the
upgrade to 4.5 for a LOT less.

Get the last cume PTF for 4.3 and apply it. Then upgrade to 4.5. Makew
sure that you've got the last cume PTF for 4.5 also

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> Konrad,
>
> There is a ton of stuff in QGPL, QUSRSYS, etc that may cause problems.
> Including, but not limited to:
> configurations
> user profiles
> directory entries
> job schedule entries
> And IBM has been storing more and more stuff into the IFS.  Thus you
may
> end up missing some important stuff in various directories.
> Trying to manually restore these onto the new machine without doing a
> release-to-release upgrade will toast your new system.
>
> Going to V5R2 versus V5R1 is better because:
> Al Barsa says so.
> You upgrade so infrequently that you might as well be current for a
little
> longer.
> Cool stuff.
>
> Granted, V4R3 will not update directly to V5R2.
>
> IBM will upgrade your OS for either a set $3,500 or for a T&M
contract. In
> this case, I don't know if they'd charge you twice.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
> --
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
>
>
>
>
> Konrad Underkofler <kdunderk@hoshizaki.com>
> Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> 09/23/2002 10:24 AM
> Please respond to midrange-l
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> Andy,
>
> We are at 4.3 on our current box. Sometimes a studied
> migration (restore) can clean up alot of non-used stuff
> on the old system and avoid the dreaded! old object in
> QGPL or QUSRSYS!
>
> It is my impression that IBM is air-lifting these systems
> in to make their Q3 numbers. We get to see how many users
> actually took the greenstreak bait.
>
> And if I go to 5.2 I can stay on it for 4 years :))
>
> Thanks
>
> Konrad
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