I agree, I always want the machines at the same release prior to any hardware migration. I don't want to change too many things at the same time, then its too difficult to figure out what went wrong.
Pete
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 2:28 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Power 7 Order and Return
Gee, whenever I strongly encourage people to get their existing machine to the current release before upgrading hardware I always get told that it's a no brainer to do the upgrade without doing so and get shouted down.
That being true, I still recommend upgrading releases as soon as you can.
Ok, if you just have to wait for the first GA cume, do so. Having to test OS, and Hardware, issues at the same time increases complexity and can significantly increase the length of outage.
Rob Berendt
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From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 03/05/2013 02:11 PM
Subject: Re: Power 7 Order and Return
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
THis is a failure of the Business Partner. The rules are and HAVE BEEN
for some time that the Donor and the Recipient machines are at the SAME
SOFTWARE level and that permanent keys are lost on the donor machine as
soon as they transfer to the Recipient machine.
The BP should have informed her of this and should have planned
accordingly. If you absolutely need to run the two machines in parallel
then you can order from IBM as part of the process extra time on the old
machine.
Hard to blame IBM for this one.
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.frankeni.com
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On 3/5/2013 10:30 AM, broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Just a heads up for those of you moving to the new 7xx boxes.
My wife works for a bank that recently ordered and received a new Power
7+
720. Really
nice little P05 that is big enough to support this small community bank.
She's been trying to get 7.1 keys for the existing 520 and expected that
when she ordered the
system she would have time to test and move the old system to the new
and
also expected
that she'd upgrade to 7.1 from 6.1 on her 520 for an easy transition.
By ordering and therefore, tipping her hand, IBM removed her ability to
order and get 7.1 for
for her 520. They will only give her 15 day keys. She's so upset
with
this tactic, she's returning the
system.
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