Re: Going from v4r4 to v5r3 or 4

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the input.

On 23 Mar 2006 at 8:16, rob@xxxxxxxxx (rob@xxxxxxxxx <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>) 
commented about Re: Going from v4r4 to v5r3 or 4:

> "Should" is a business case.  I figure these people hate going through 
> upgrades if they are still running V4R4.  Therefore whatever you start 
> them out on they will probably be stuck with for a long time.  Therefore 
> I'd start them out on V5R4.

I will defiantly end up with v5r4 on the box.  The only question is how I get 
there and how many hours it takes to get there.  I was hoping someone 
that has made that jump would chime in.   I don't know what conversions 
(under the covers)  have taken place at each version upgrade and if all of 
the changes will still get applied with such a large jump.  At the moment 
I'm thinking of following Jim Franz's suggestion and:
"If you just want to load your profiles and libs, I would stay at 5.3 (making 
the difference between the 2 boxes the fewest skipped releases 
possible),
load your stuff,
then upgrade to 5.4 and apply ptfs."

Of course I will apply the latest CUM on 5.3 and do a backup before 
loading any profiles and libs.  The down side is I'll need to do a bunch of 
testing three times.  Once on 5.3 to see if it was successful and then after 
I install 5.4 then again when I'm ready to update to the live files.

I'm hoping someone else that has made the jump will tell me there wasn't 
any significant conversions done under the covers from 5.3 to 5.4 so I 
might as well just bite the bullet and see what happens from 4.4 to 5.4.
If I remember right there was some internal conversion done from 4.4 to 
4.5 and then again going to 5.1.  Is anyone in the know that remembers? 

Thank you,

Gary Kuznitz 

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> I have a new 520 being shipped tomorrow with v5r3.  I have an old box 
> running v4r4.  Does anyone know if I should load v5r4 on the 520 before 
> trying to convert from v4r4?
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> Does anyone know how to convert from v4r4 to v5r3 or 4?
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