Re: SPD Cards During Upgrade to V5R4

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I would NOT try this upgrade. In the past IBM has used the 
term 'Not Supported' to mean different things. 'Not Supported' for some 
features means 'Don't call if it fails' (But the feature usually works 
fine) and for other features it means 'Vary On Failed' (And the IOP 
takes a dive with it)

I guess one question would be do you need all the features in the FC 
#5035 or could you survive without them?

If you can try the upgrade and have Very good backups AND time to revert 
back if it fails you may consider giving it a shot.

Note that you need a 17GB Load Source drive for V5R4 which were fairly 
rare on 820 machines.

 - Larry

Michael Naughton wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We've got a 9406-820 that's running V5R2, and we're planning to migrate to
> a 9406-520 running V5R4. We'd like to do this in two stages: 1) upgrade
> the 9406-820 to V5R4, then 2) migrate over to the 9406-520 a couple of
> weeks later.
>
> The 9406-820 has a 5035 expansion tower with SPD cards, and IBM says that
> those cards are not supported for V5R4. Our quesion is, will they still
> work? According to IBM, the code is still there, so we're thinking they
> probably will, but we're wondering if anyone else out there has experience
> with this.
>
> Has anyone done this, or do you have theories about whether it
> should/should not work?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Mike Naughton
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Judd Wire, Inc.
> 124 Turnpike Road
> Turners Falls, MA  01376
> 413-863-4357 x444
> mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>