RE: Image Catalog Upgrade

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