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

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Justin,

We are using the SOQ product from Generic Software (that has been renamed
this year to a name I forget...) so we will be OK on that, thank goodness.

And good to hear about the MHz speed - I was wondering about that ;-)

I remember at my last job, upgrades from an F70 to a 320 and then latter on
from the 320 to a 530 we unbelievable speed increases. We had done a lot of
upgrades before the F70 but these two absolutely blew EVERYONE's minds -
even IT. I had developers coming to me saying that there was "now way" a job
could have run. I'd show them the job log, etc. and they were stunned :-)

Thanks,

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin C. Haase
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:53 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: 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