Re: V5R3M5 LIC

Chad,

Like you, I'd really prefer doing the upgrade on the old machine and then 
religiously following Appendix D of the Backup and Recovery Guide.

However, I have did the load of LIC on the new machine from CD's and then 
restore everything else from the source machine.  I would only do this for 
when both machines are on the same release, or this one time shot of a 
v5r3m0 source to a v5r3m5 target.  Actually, I've found that some machines 
will not even let you IPL from tape because (and forgive me if I get this 
backward) the difference between "alternate IPL device" and "alternate 
installation device".  Small mom and pop machines running internal tape 
cartridge drives may never notice this.  But larger shops using 35xx tape 
drives most likely will.  One advantage of preinstalling the LIC from CD 
is that you minimize your downtime because the installation of LIC will 
also initialize your disk drives.  On some machines that can shave off a 
few hours of downtime.  When you have a country full of people waiting on 
a 570, that is significant.
This method will require that you reinstall cume, and the hiper and DB 
group ptf's.

Rob Berendt