Re: Upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4 this weekend

If you are asking those questions on a Thursday evening, it does not sound
like you are ready for the upgrade this weekend!   Not meaning to offend,
but the advice given below is the bare minimum of preparation...  take a
step back and get as familiar with the IBM docs and process as you can!

                                                                       
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You need to read to documents - one is the Memo to Users and make sure you
don't have a show-stopper.
2. There are explicit pre-install planning docs to go through, which lead
you though how to prepare a machine, including the pre-ptfs that are
INCREDIBLY important (can u say crash & restore whole system from backup?).

Plan on spending hours getting "ready".
Have you done a release upgrade in the V5 days?
There are way too many variations on machines, products, lpars, x-series,
etc for us to point you thru this - you gotta follow the IBM path, as
boring
as it is...
Ask questions if you don't understand the docs.
Should be a "Start Here...: page with the cd's.

and I would not be running a release update during the hours in the Sun am
time shift.

jim franz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Adams" <rondadams@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:26 PM
Subject: Upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4 this weekend

A few questions.

First, is this a good idea for this weekend considering the time change?

Second, I was reading some other threads and I kept seeing "pre-upgrade
PTFs". What is this referring to?
Third, I have CDs, can I load them in as Image Catalogs? If so, how do I
do
it? Is it as simple as "QSYS/ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG(V54RUPG) FROMDEV(OPT01)" ?

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Ron Adams
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