Re: Recovering from a hosed up CUME install

Thanks Rob. This is a very *vanilla* customer. Simple, small, 10 users, no system customization of any kind.

I think I'll try Pete's approach first, which is to just load and apply delayed, the latest CUME. I don't think this will work because the current PTF's that won't apply because of concurrent issues with pre and co requisites will probably prevent the latest PTF's that may also have a dependency on the hosed ones from applying as well. But, you never know. I could get lucky.

If I am still in the same position after the CUME is applied, I'll slip LIC and reload the OS, then load the CUME.

I ordered the "full boatload" of PTF's for this CUME, rather than ordering just the ones that weren't on the system in anticipation of slipping LIC and loading OS (17 CD's) With the slow connection they have, it's been running 15 hours and we have 7 CD's to go. Could be a long night.....

Pete


rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Actually what he says about the subsystem descriptions may, or may not, be true. Here's the catch: If you do what I used to do, which is copy over qbatch subsystem description from a backup library prior to the upgrade after every upgrade then you'll notice you have to keep doing this because you lost your change. Why? Because somewhere in the internals of the subsystem description is it's release level and if it's really old (V2 I think) it cannot upgrade it during the OS upgrade so it replaces it. I have thousands of job queue entries in QBATCH. Finally called IBM on this and the workaround is to recreate my subsystem description from scratch (or manually add the thousands of job descriptions to the new qbatch). I wrote a program to retrieve the attributes of the backup qbatch and create a new qbatch. Now IBM updates it fine and I don't lose my job queue entries. Again, I only had to run the program once and every os upgrade since then has been fine.

Perhaps if you are one of those shops that tried something clever and restored a machine onto another machine because you were more than n-2 levels behind or just would rather spend a month cleaning up problems than a day doing two upgrades to get there the official way, then you may have also fell into this trap.


Rob Berendt