RE: Replacing Disk Drives With Higher Capacity -- MIDRANGE-L

Sounds like FUD to me. Why would you request something "new and useful"
and then imply that you would never use it?

If this is the issue to which you refer:

"During a restore operation not all of the data was correctly read from
the save file in some cases which caused the restore to fail. This only
affected data which was saved to a save file using DTACPR(*MEDIUM) or
DTACPR(*HIGH) and generally only affected the restore of large objects
(such as objects over 150 GB). The restore logic has been changed to
correct this problem."

So this was a very specific problem related to a very specific scenario
that most users won't ever encounter. It's been fixed by PTF for nearly
a year and been included on the Cume since February.

We've been on V6R1 for nearly two months now and only had one small
issue with, wait, Windows Active Directory authentication! The PTF was
already available and the issue was closed quickly.

Your System i already runs Mohave, what more do you want?

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Fiserv Midwest

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I am waiting for my iSeries to run something truly new and useful like
Windows Vista!

Maybe it might be better to call the older versions "time tested"?

Had a vendor talk about a V5R4 bug that allowed saves but not restores.
Neat trick!

Planning on V6R1 any year now. Maybe when the econony improves...

Konrad

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Gee, two consecutive unrelated posts from people running obsolete
versions of the OS.

Sucks to be them.

Rob Berendt
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The OP is on v5r2. but maybe he has BRMS....

Does a 730 even support v5r4, I don't think so.

Charles

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:46 PM,
<rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What loss of spool files?
SAVLIB LIB(X) DEV(TAP01) SPLFDTA(*ALL)

GO SAVE
20. Define save system and user data defaults
page down
Spooled file data . . . . . . *NONE *NONE, *ALL

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Jones, John (US) wrote:

The incremental removal/replacement works, but will take days to

complete and you wind up with data that won't necessarily be

distributed

across the disks evenly. Performance will also likely be impacted

during

the removal process.

I'd do it (and have done it) the old fashioned way:
- GO SAVE/21.
- GO SAVE/21 again just in case.
- Power off.
- Pull all old drives out, noting the slot where each drive came

from.

- Put the replacement drives in.
- Power up, DST, start mirroring & add to ASP.
- GO RESTORE/21.

If something goes wrong you can power off & put the old drives back

(since their slot was noted).

This has the most user downtime but you end up with the most optimal

data layout (best performance).

And result in a loss of all spooled files and all of the other

niceties

that are lost in this scenario. Appreciate the thought though.

BTW, if your apps will work on a newer OS release, upgrading to a

550

with a dozen 141GB disks would probably pay for itself in reduced
maintenance and power/HVAC costs while running circles around the

730.

And

take 8 or 9 Us in one rack v. about two full racks worth of space for

the

730 + DASD tower.

And incur a new key charge from Infor for daring to improve my

machine.

Same for Extol's EDI package. It's been a year or two, but the last
time I spec'd a machine, it was over 100 grand to get a machine

-near-

the performance of the 730/1506. So, unless a 550 runs on the power

a 60 watt bulb, it'd take quite some time to recoup the expenses you
speak of.

Bill
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