RE: 730 to 825 migration

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug,

My gut reaction to the request is that your client is increasing both the
cost and risk of their migration.  This seems so obvious to me that I
really need to ask what problems your client foresees with upgrading the
730.  Is there non-supported hardware involved?  Are they concerned with
moving OS/400 stuff to the new platform which is leftover from previous
releases?  Do they want to run/test their new V5R2 platform while still
maintaining their V4R5 platform in production?

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse



> I am planning to migrate from a 730 at v4r5 to a new 825 partition at
> v5r2.
> My client does not want his 730 to be upgraded to v5r2 as he is
> concerned
> with having problems in v5r2.  He is requesting that I NOT do a "by the
> book" migration where the source system is upgraded then the target
> partition loaded from scratch from the save of the source system. I
> have
> done two of these "user data" migrations before but both were very
> small
> systems (600, 170).  I know the issues with QGPL, QUSRSYS, QDLS, IFS,
> etc.
> 
> Two requests.
> 
> I would like to hear from all of you if going from v4r5 to v5r2 has
> given
> anyone problem.  Are the clients fears founded?
> 
> Please comment on the non-conventional migration.  Is this a reasonable
> request?