RE: 5.3 upgrade

I used the image catalog for the v5r1 to v5r2 upgrade.

It was great!  Started the upgrade, went down the street to the local
watering hole.  Went back to check on it periodically, never had a problem.

Now that's the way to upgrade an operating system.  Thank you IBM.

Charles


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> I HIGHLY recommend the image catalog.  We had a bad CD and 
> this was nice to
> find out prior to loading the 10 CD's before it.  The other 
> programmers who
> hung around during the load loved it.  No sticking in of CD's 
> at all.  No
> having to wait for the light to stop blinking prior to answering the
> message in QSYSOPR, etc.
> 
> Now, when you start talking about storing V5R3, cumes, 
> groups, etc all in
> the image catalog, you better have about 5GB of disk to allocate for
> this.  But it's only temporary.
> 
> Rob Berendt
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> Went very well - I was even doing it with the early ship 
> (beta version). Do
> what Al says, which is basically, read the install manual, 
> read it again,
> choose your install method, do a dry walk-through, then do the real
> install, and do every step. Check them off as you go. It's 
> fussy but will
> almost guarantee a pain-free install.
> 
> This includes clean up -- permanent applies of PTFs, etc.
> 
> If you are a little brave, you could use virtual CD - image 
> catalogs. It
> saves plugging in CDs during the install. But if you have 
> never used them,
> this may not be the time to learn. We are a development house 
> and I could
> afford to - production shops have to be more careful, not 
> dareful (as I
> first typed it).
> 
> And you have a full system backup, right? If not, do it.
> 
> HTH
> Vern
> 
> At 09:56 AM 7/28/2004, you wrote:
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> >Going from 5.2. Did anyone have any issues or problems w/ 
> this upgrade?
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> >thanks, Mike
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