Re: *TYPE2 Directory conversion and a V5R2 upgrade....

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I ran the conversion on a V5R1 machine - no problems. Of course, ours is a 
fairly small 270. Time required depend solely on the measures of your 
non-library IFS. You can run an option to see the possible impact. It was 
close enough for us. Your upgrade will take longer without the 
preconversion, in our case it would have been minutes. But larger systems, 
more time.

Vern

At 03:28 PM 6/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> I'm hearing some conflicting information ....
>
> On one hand I hear that upgrading to *TYPR2 directory entries in the IFS can
> be run on V5R1 or on V5R2 after the during the installation or after the
> installation...
>
> Then I went to look at the V5R1 Information Center and it says:
>
> If you have V5R1, you can convert your V5R1 directories to the *TYPE2
> directory format. It is recommended that you convert to the *TYPE2 directory
> format before installing a new release of OS/400. This is necessary because
> the directory conversion may automatically be done during the installation.
> The impact of an automatic conversion during install is that the time
> required for the installation will be significantly increased.
>
> So, my question for the group is - Have you upgraded IFS directories to the
> *TYPE2 format,  before, during or after the upgrade to V5R2 and why?
>
> Kenneth
>
> ****************************************
> Kenneth E. Graap