Re: Upgrade path

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

maybe back then you couldn't go direct, you had to do them in order.  When
was this, 1989'ish I think.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:13 PM, John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Another ancient history type of question, unfortunately, but it is nagging
> me.
>
> Back in the last century, The B50 had v1r2m0 on it.  We received tapes
> from another State agency.  All was well.  Even after they upgraded to
> v1r3m0.  Then, they upgraded to v2 and we could not read the tapes
> (SAVOBJ format, as I dimly recall).  We were told, by our IBM rep,
> that we would have to upgrade to v1r3, then do a second upgrade.  A
> lot of foor dragging, and then we were told we could upgrade directly
> to v2.  A night I still remember.
>
> Does anybody know if we were initially misled by our IBM rep
> concerning the n-2 upgrade?
>
> This doesn't matter a hill of beans.  But, it sure created a lot of
> heat at the time.
>
>
> John McKee
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