Re: Questions about migrations between power5 and power7 And re-spin/resave

Roberto,

You are correct - no V5 on POWER7.

Your steps are a bit mixed. If you have a SAVE 21 of the current system and a 520 to work with, I would do this:

1) Restore that SAVE 21 to the 520. This gets you onto a box that will run both the current version and the required version.
2) Perform the upgrade to i 6.1 (V6R1M1) (i 7.1 would be even better and generally there is little reason to stop at i 6.1)
2a) Apply current PTFs to the system.
2c) Perform object conversion. You state that 'it's been done' however while it's likely the preliminary work has been done so that the conversion CAN be done, it cannot actually be completed until you are on i 6.1 or 7.1. If you want to wait to do it until you are on POWER7 you will want to change the system value QFRCCVNRST to a value of 0 or 1 before you do the save (Next step) and then do the conversion after the restore.
3) Resave the system with another SAVE 21.
4) Restore the new SAVE 21 to the POWER7 server.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 9/2/2011 11:06 AM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:

According to what i have been reading, Power7 does not support v5r4m5.
If i get that correctly, even with v6r1m1 LIC it would not IPL, am i
correct?
I have just tried to "install OS" from a v5r4m5 *21 save, the 720 just
spat the tape back at me (after reading it).
I'm about to restore said tape on a 9406-520, i assume the following
steps would be correct?

Install v6r1m1 lic
Restore v5r4m5 *21
Upgrade to v6r1m0
Install latest acum/ptf/hiper/etc
Save 21
Restore on 720Express

I dont have to worry about the object migration part, that was already
done and as far as i know it's OK to go.

Also, i have read in the mailing list about creating my own re-spins
using option 40 of go-licpgm, should i do that with only QUSRSYS and
QGPL, install ALL licpgm or maybe install the most basic pgms, install
the acum/etc and then make the media?

It seems there is a great shortage of i5/OS-aware people here in
Argentina, even the official IBM technicians make disasters (that's
why i'm trying to stop being a hardware only as400 guy).

Best Regards and thanks for the mailing list archive it's my first
reference outside the books and official ibm-site.

Roberto