Re: Upgrade to 6.1 or jump to 7.1 ?

Pete,

Please be aware that if you are upgrading to Windows 7 IBM i Access V5R4 is
NOT supported. You can run i Access version 7.1 or 6.1 against your V5R4
system. Check this for compatibility issues:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/access/windows/supportedos.html

<http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/access/windows/supportedos.html>
Regards,
Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Part of what is driving the question is what to order (looks like 7.1 is
the winner) and the second part is one downtime window. I have a
weekend to get it all taken care of. There is a "bigger picture"
dimension going on as well. We are upgrading the client PC's to Windows
7 (from XP - thanks MS for no upgrade path....) and moving client
documents and email back to the server (rather than storing them on the
client) so what is driving the dasd upgrade is that they run Small
Business Server on an IXA and they need more space. This will give them
a few hundred gig more.

They only have this one 520 and the IXA (with 20 client PC's, half of
which need access to the i). Add a possible move to Open Office from MS
Office and I am guessing the 7.1 upgrade will be the least of my worries!

I need to investigate the firmware levels for the IXA although a scan of
the memo to users didn't turn up any references to IXA.

Should be fun!

Pete


On 6/3/2010 7:55 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:

Pete, your intital thread started with migrating all dasd and then

jumping

into the OS upgrade etc. Are you viewing this all as 1 downtime window

to

do all of the work that your going to do. I was just curious as to what
type of time allotments you have set aside to do all of this. Do you

have

another other systems in the mix or just this one system. I would go to

6.1

then jump to 7.1. Do you have Client Access etc.




On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:25 AM,<rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Both of the following:

Finding the latest PSP information

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzahc/findinglatestpsp.htm

Installing PTFs and analyzing your system for object conversions (V5R4

to

IBM i 7.1 upgrade)

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzahc/rzahcinstallingptfsforconversions.htm

Which I found by opening the 7.1 Infocenter and expanding
IBM i and related software
Installing, upgrading, or deleting IBM i and related software
Upgrading or replacing IBM i and related software
Preparing to upgrade or replace IBM i software

HTH

Rob Berendt
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From: Pete Helgren<Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/02/2010 09:33 PM
Subject: Re: Upgrade to 6.1 or jump to 7.1 ?
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Ok. Sounds like the best approach is to go straight to 7.1. (My beta
experience was positive as well so this seems pretty safe).

Where do I find the suggested PTF's needed to go to 7.1 from V5R4M0?
Does the memo to users cover that (6.1 and 7.1 I'd guess) or is there
another way to go about it? Looks like they are on cume 09321.

Pete


On 6/2/2010 3:44 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

I would not have any qualms about going straight to V7. As Pete
Massiello indicated, most of the change was in the 6.1 upgrade anyway.
So far we have not had any issues with V7.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 6/2/2010 1:52 PM, Scott Klement wrote:

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Hi Jim,

Looking at it a slightly different way, why spend all the extra hours
doing two upgrades as opposed to one?

Actually, that's EXACTLY how I _am_ looking at it. I'm a very busy

man,

and sacrificing my weekend (if not two weekends) to do an upgrade is a
very painful proposition for me.

So if I can avoid doing it twice, I definitely want to. But I'm

worried

about exactly what Tommy Holden refers to... I can't afford for my
applications to not work because I decided to be bleeding edge.

So I guess more than anything, my question is whether I can expect to
have major problems from the "new-ness" of 7.1.

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