Re: Image Catalog Upgrade -- MIDRANGE-L

I have done several of these with no issues. I do segregate the various PTF groups and the OS/400 code stuff into separate catalogs. I do have a homemade PTF group that I load in advance which contains all the PTFs for image catalogs on V5R2 as well as the license agreement PTFs needed to get to V5R3. I load and apply my group and create all the catalogs a week or so before the upgrade. I also do the LIC space extension at that time. Come upgrade day it's finish backup and IPL from the catalog.

Now that we can write our own images through VMI I will be changing over to custom install images with the PTFs already applied. Should cut upgrade time in half!

 - Larry

Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:

All -
I'm looking for someone who has had experience with upgrading from an
Image catalog. (I was doing a V5R2 - V5R3 upgrade.)  The system was at
C4244520 with all of the required Image Catalog and upgrade PTF's (per
SupportLine.)
It appeared to me that having multiple image catalogs on the system caused the LIC install to hang. I had the LIC and O/S in image catalog UPGRADE05. I also had image catalogs CUMULATIVE and GROUPPTFS. The command entered was: PWRDWNSYS OPTION(*IMMED) RESTART(*YES) IPLSRC(*IMGCLG) IMGCLG(UPGRADE05)

After the LIC installs hung at srcC6004001 (three times) I would IPL and find image catalog UPGRADE05 unloaded from OPTVRT01 and either CUMULATIVE or GROUPPTFS loaded. After deleting image catalogs CUMULATIVE and GROUPPTFS the LIC install completed successfully and continued with the O/S install.
Is this a "normal" behavior?
Regards,
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group

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