RE: SLIC/OS Levels for POWER5 to POWER5+ Upgrade

Help me out here folks... This is a 9406-570 0934 7757.  I can't find a
thing about V5R3M5 on this box, nor can I find any requirement that I
need it unless I'm trying to do load source off external DASD, which I'm
not.

From SST:

    System unit . . . . . . . :   9406-570 10-XXXXX              
    Release . . . . . . . . . :   V5R3M0   
This is the help text off "Release":
           Release:

     Output field to display the release level of Licensed Internal

     Code.                        

From GO LICPGM, display:

 Licensed  Installed

 Program   Release     Description

 5722SS1   V5R3M0 L00  OS/400 - Library QGPL

 5722SS1   V5R3M0 L00  OS/400 - Library QUSRSYS

 5722SS1   V5R3M0 L00  Operating System/400      

From DSPPTF:

 Product ID  . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   5722999

 IPL source  . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   ##MACH#B

 Release of base option  . . . . . . . :   V5R3M0 L00


???????

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Justin C. Haase - Solution Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan Dietz
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:09 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SLIC/OS Levels for POWER5 to POWER5+ Upgrade

As other have said, yes you need v5r3m5........Or you can upgrade to
v5r4 before the upgrade


_____________________________
Bryan Dietz



midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/20/2006 06:04:03 AM:

-> Hi,
-> I have a customer who is planning to upgrade from a POWER5 570 to a
POWER5+
-> 570.  They are currently running V5R3 and I'm trying to understand if
they
-> need to install a newer version of the V5R3 SLIC and Base OS before 
-> the hardware upgrade takes place.  There is reference to this in one 
-> ofthe
V5R4
-> Hardware Announcement PDFs but I'm trying to confirm if this is 
-> indeed
the
-> case.  The PDF refers to a feature code of #2692 (V5R3 Refresh) which
must
-> be ordered as part of the upgrade.  Has anyone gone through this
process?
-> Thanks,
-> Dean.

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