RE: Complete Box Swap 620 @ V4R5 to 810 LPAR @ V5R2 - what to watch for, etc.

Since you have the luxury of not MES'ing the box, I think you've got it
pretty well covered.  The only caveat I'd watch out for is spooled files -
you may have to create remote outq's and send your spools over to the new
box, since unless you're using BRMS you'll lose those.

We did a successful 830 non-LPAR to an 870 LPAR, switched to Mimix over the
transition - took nearly 40 hours, up and running Monday AM!  You will LOVE
the new machine - CPW be damned, the plain MHz speed of the processors make
a world of difference as well.

Best of luck.

Justin

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:22 AM
To: midrange-l
Subject: Complete Box Swap 620 @ V4R5 to 810 LPAR @ V5R2 - what to watch
for, etc.


Hi Folks,

Have our 810 in that will totally replace out 620 (i.e. new serial number,
taking NO hardware from the 620 to the 810, etc.). We decided to let IBM
Global Services setup the LPAR stuff. Our main software package is in one
library so that is easy. I will of course have the user profiles,
communications line (Ethernet), control units (Perle 494 TCP/IP), display
devices, printers, outqs, etc. to setup. Is there anything obvious that I
could be missing ? I've never done a complete box swap - been through a TON
of system upgrades. They both have their pluses and minuses. Nice thing with
this is we will have a system COMPLETELY setup while the production system
rolls along :-)

Thanks !

Chuck