Re: V3r2 to V5R3 (The rest of the story) -- MIDRANGE-L

In the paperwork will be somes docs labelled as "Urgent" or
"Required" or similar. I don't have a set in front of me. As Rob suggested

in other post, your BP may do this for you (but I have not had thatexperience).It requires a pc to get to the IBM Key Center website and login & get thekeys, but

the i5 does not have to be connected.

A 2nd question: your preloaded system will most likely have a cumepreloaded, but notalways the latest cume. A DSPPTF command and the 1st screen the TLxxxx willgive youthe cume level you are at. Check the Support website to see if a later cume.With V5r4fairly new, I would keep up with cumes. IBM no longer auto ships a cume setwith

new shipment, but if your BP is good - they will order it with machine.

With cume comes DB2 group ptfs and hiper group ptfs - very important! We'vehadlots of discussion about the order to load these -- i stick to theinstructions & do not deviate.I also read the instructions completely before starting - you can get introuble with

missing pre-reqs, or not enough reserved space, or ptfs identified as bad.
jim franz

----- Original Message -----From: "Pat Barber" <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: V3r2 to V5R3 (The rest of the story)

There must have been at least 5 different boxes almost full
of CDs. I started going through the boxes but the descriptions
were very typical and was killing my time.

I wondered about those keys cause I did not see the normal
paperwork with the key info. This box does "not" have any
pc attached. Is that going to be a requirement to get the
keys on ???

During the initial IPL, the system asked for acceptance of
all the licensed products. I "accepted" and it went on it's merry
little way. I have a feeling that has something to do with the
keys but I'm not 100% on that.

I got to do some reading on this subject.

This is a "Express" machine and everything appeared to be preloaded
and the system was even mirrored up, which was a little bit of a
surprise.

I wonder if the keys are handled by that procedure ???






Jim Franz wrote:

fyi - in the software box should have been a cd of the InformationCenter.I like the old manuals myself, but have had to resort to Info Center cdwhen
I did not get such a quick support response.
Also - did you apply the encrypted keys to the product licenses yet?
That now requires a net connection for at least your pc to get the keys.
They are no longer shipping the paper with each keyed product.
Machine & products will run with warnings on qsysopr for 70 days tillkeys
applied.
jim franz

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