Re: Upgrading V5R2 to V5R3

   Brian,

   I just did our upgrade and there were few problems.  Here are the ones
   that I know of;

   *  Change to the copy command(s) to and/or from the IFS. I think the
   command is CPYFRMIMPF It now pays attention to the CCSID, and if they are
   not right for all fields, you might have bad data after the upgrade when
   you do a transfer.  There is a way around this if I remember correctly,
   check the archive.

   * New system values for save/restore/security, or new defaults.   Two of
   them caused minor problems for us, we don't save access paths, and the
   system value QSAVACCPTH caused us to overflow tapes on the first system
   save.  Easily fixable, but not something I caught in reading the upgrade
   information.  The other one had something to do with a restore of and
   signatures not matching or some server not found.  I was not involved with
   that find and fix, so I'm not exactly sure what was resolved.

   * I tried to use the Image Catalog to do the upgrade, and it would not
   work.  Had to do the install off of the CDs, which was an inconvenience,
   but not a show stopper.

   I read the information available (glad info center was up a few weekends
   ago!), followed the check list, and all went well.  Still working on
   implementation of some of the new stuff like time serving.  I made sure to
   create and populate the data area that sets the time.

   HTH

   Jim

   
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   Jim Essinger
   Senior Programmer/Analyst
   UnLtd Support Services
   PO Box 730
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   At 08:14 AM 10/12/2005 Wednesday, you wrote:

     Hi All,

      

     As you may have seen in a previous message, our iSeries is currently
     sitting at v5r2.  How difficult is it to upgrade to v5r3.  Is there
     anything specific that needs to be done (next to an Option 21) to
     perform an upgrade?  I'd be concerned about killing our production
     machine (we had problems last time we went from v4r5 to v5r2), but I'm
     wondering if that was because it was a major upgrade instead of a
     minor(?) upgrade.

      

     Thanks,

      

     Brian.

      

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