RE: Image Catalog Upgrade

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll have to beg to differ here.  Normally all the PTF's could be in one
Image Catalog, but for an upgrade you want to use two.  

After the O/S install you are still on the A side of the system.  At
this point you want to install the Cume and IPL to the B side.  Then,
after the INZSYS completes, you should apply Group PTFs and IPL again.
For many years I had installed the Cume and the groups together, but a
couple of years back it bit me.  Some MF PTF's needed to be perm applied
before O/S PTF's could go on or something like that.  Then the
prerequisite chain failed and the whole package failed to apply.  It
took two or three additional IPLs to fix....  

Of course I got the requisite dressing down from SupportLine ("Didn't
you read the Read This First and Memo To Users?")  

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group

-----Original Message-----
date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:02:58 +0000
from: vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: Image Catalog Upgrade

What I say here may not apply to upgrades, so please bear with me. I
don't think you should segregate all the different PTF things. You have
a CUME and GROUPS, etc. Just make a single image catalog, put all the
CUMEs, group PTFs, and individual things you order in there. Then take
the Verify option for *PTFs and let it straighten itself out. Then you
are good to go home, once it starts.

HTH
Vern

-------------- Original message -------------- 

> 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