Terry,
Thanks for the compliment, I always enjoy speaking at that
conference.
You normally apply your PTFs permanently when you would upgrade, so
when you perform this step you would have both the A & B side of i5/OS the
same, which would then carry forth down to the FSP (both P & T sides) the
same. I would highly recommend that both the P & T were at the 338 level
before upgrading to V6R1. It will only take one IPL, and better safe if you
were to have to IPL the FSP from the P side.
Pete
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of terryr
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:13 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: v6r1 upgrade question - Firmware
Good afternoon
I'm trying to determine if a v5r3 machine is at the proper firmware level to
go to v6r1. I attended Pete Massiello's excellent session on this at the
NEMUG meeting in the spring, so I know it has to be at SF240-332 or higher.
I just loaded the latest cume package and the FLASHLEVELS screen in SST
shows as follows:
Display Formatted Data
Page/Line. . . 1 /
1
Columns. . . : 1 - 78
Find . . . . . . . . . . .
....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+.
..
DISPLAY/ALTER/DUMP
Running macro: FLASHLEVELS
LS Flash Sync Enabled.
OS MANAGED
Base Level: SF240_219
Side Date/Time MI Keyword PTFs (V5R3M5)
------------- ------------- ----------
-------------------------------
Memory 20071210/1157 SF240_338 MH01052
Flash P 20061118/1409 SF240_284 MH00904
Flash T 20071210/1157 SF240_338 MH01052
Load Source A 20061118/1409 SF240_284 MH00904
Load Source B 20071210/1157 SF240_338 MH01052
Bottom
F2=Find F3=Exit F4=Top F5=Bottom F10=Right F12=Cancel
I see that load source B is at a sufficient level. Does load source A need
to be at 332 or better as well?
Thanks-
Terry Richardson
Hendrickson & Associates, LLC
(802) 879-1061
(802) 598-0694 (mobile)
terryr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
midrange.com
