RE: Wisdom of just a SAVSYS after an upgrade

Hey, What Kind of tape drive do you have?? I want some!!! 8>)

My backup windows are disappearing faster than customer service at
Walmart.



Joel B. Harvell
Food Lion, LLC
(704) 633-8250 x2709
jbharvell@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:29 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Wisdom of just a SAVSYS after an upgrade

I'd say you Rob.

That's the way I (used to) do it.

IIRC, that's what IBM recommends.

Heck with those tape drives of yours, doesn't the full system save take
just seconds anyway? <grin>

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:22 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Wisdom of just a SAVSYS after an upgrade

Skipping a lot of details but our basic steps to doing a
release upgrade
is:
Save entire system
apply ptfs perm, IPL
do the upgrade
Do a full system save.

The boss is wondering if we could just do a SAVSYS at the end. My
argument is that this isn't a S/36, or even an old AS/400.
That a release
upgrade puts stuff into all sorts of libraries, directories,
etc that a
SAVSYS just doesn't begin to cover. Including, but not
limited to data
conversions in QUSRSYS. Then, there's the little things like object
conversions, etc that sometimes happen with release upgrades.

If the goal is to be able to recover, do the full system
save. Otherwise
you're stuck with the save PRIOR to the OS upgrade.

So who passes the whizz quiz: the boss or I?

Rob Berendt
--
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

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