SRC B600-F103 (was "Howto get full SRC info")

[Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti <afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As promised, my "update", but not quite:

Today we tried again the Upgrade from V5R2 to V5R3 that gave us SRC 
B600-F103 as mentioned in my previous posts.
We were supposed to repeat everything again, to provide Rochester with 
add'l info (words 12, 13.. 19) on SRC B600F103 we had received, up until 
now.

Today we tried it again, but ... Customer had received two identical 
shipments for the upgrade CD's. Don't know why. Indeed we had checked 
them in advance just to make sure they were "absolutely the same" (same 
built, same code, same everything...).
So, when we started today, I just thought, let's try with the other CD 
set... It should make no difference... and to our surprise it worked! 
Installed Microcode, OS/400 and LPP's.

Well, things never come easy... After upgrading, had to install PTFs: 
Cumulative and Hiper/DB Group PTFs .
Fifth CD from the Cumulative gave an error. What shall we do if PTFs 
can't install?
Happily enough, the 820 had two OPT drives..  Tried from OPT02 and it 
could read the same CD OPT01 couldn't!

So, finally everything worked out...

Now : we did not provide Rochester with feedback for B600F103...
Don't either know why PTFs fifth CD couldn't be read from OPT01 but was 
read by OPT02...

I'm just writing this down just in case anybody else runs into similar 
problems.
Thanks to all who answered my original post.

Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti escribió:

> Larry, John, Jim, ... Thanks to all who answered.
> Tomorrow Saturday is the day. Will keep our fingers crossed..., and 
> will keep you informed of the outcome.
> Thanks!
>
> Larry Bolhuis escribió:
>
> > Antonio,
> >
> >  You are correct. When the server stops yellow light on an SRC it 
> > displays word 11 by default. You may then up arrow to word 12 and 
> > press enter (blue) to display it. Same with 13 etc. Some words may be 
> > all 0's. Additinally some SRCs populate more words than others so 
> > just keep pressing up and enter until no more words are available.