Re: Need Console 101 badly

I'll be curious to find out Larry - when I migrated an 800 to a 520+ last
year I chose to not try the V5R3M5 LIC on the 800 (the chart said it
wouldn't work).

Another question prompted by this thread... when we get a few new 525s at
the end of September/beginning of October, will they come with V5R4M0 or
V5R4M5 on them? I don't need the V5R4M5 features and would greatly prefer
to do a simple save/restore migration and end up at V5R4M0. Of course, I
guess what comes on them doesn't matter so much... as long as they run with
V5R4M0 I can load that version of the lic from my save media.




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Has anyone determined that V5R4M5 SLIC will load on a 270? Has anyone
tried? Recently 'Not Supported' in the release column for SLIC meant 'no
code to run on that processor' so this might never work. Of course as
soon as I download a copy of V5R4M5 Slic for Frankie I will be trying
this unless someone tells me it flat out doesn't work.

- Larry

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Joe,

(Rob is back from vacation)

I - When you upgrade you may wish to upgrade to V5R4M5 and not V5R4M0.
I-A Pro is that you can have that hot raid spare drive that you were
previously talking about. Also, if you migrate that 270 to newer

hardware

you will need to be at 545 to do the "standard" unload/reload.
I-B Con is that 545 is not going to be officially supported on a 270 even

though thousands of them will need to do this (including us) if they wish

to do the standard unload/reload.

We used to be an Op's Console shop when we had 8xx boxes. Don't worry
about the ENDTCPSVR stuff. Just keep the faith. I don't know how IBM
left enough stuff running that you could do an ENDSBS *ALL *IMMED and
still use that box but, by golly, they did. Think Joe, it is the

flipping

console, I am sure IBM thought of it.

The advantage of Op's Console over the new thin console is remote access.

You could always PC Anywhere into Op's Console. Ain't going to happen
with thin console or a stupid 5250 proprietary console. (Well, I suppose

you could use a PC with a twinax card using 5250 emulation and NOT

iSeries

Access so you could PC Anywhere into that. But that seems to slay the
myth of reliability associated with the 5250 console. Coworker tells me
he's had to IPL the i5 lots more than his PC this last week - and he's
required to take his PC home every night.)

Rob Berendt

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