Re: POWER 7 Upgrade

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I understand you correctly IBM i and the license program products are 
already on the new system. The trick is QGPL and QUSRSYS which is why 
your partner wants to scratch reload it. If, and only if, you have all 
of the configurations set up properly on the new box, then all you 
should need to do for QGPL and QUSRSYS is restore *NEW objects, that 
will pick up anything you missed. Then lay down all of the user 
libraries and directories etc.

The absolute safest way to go is the method your partner is suggesting, 
it will take longer, but you'll wind up with everything over on the new 
system.

Personally I like building the OS and the environment first, and then 
re-implementing the user applications on the new box because it provides 
an opportunity to clean up the system. That said, it also takes a bit 
more planning.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On 5/1/13 9:35 AM, broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have a question concerning an upgrade that we are making this weekend.
> I'm taking a Power 5 to a Power 7+ Model D, from 6.1.1 to 6.1.1.  The
> reason
> for the same release is not up for discussion: has to do with release 7
> vendor
> issues that won't be rectified until sometime in the fall.  Eb34 has been
> installed on
> the Power 7 and the Lic goes on and the disk config is all set up. This is
> a LAN
> console environment.
>
> My business partner has a specific way of upgrading the system and it
> includes
> putting the Respin 6.1.1 I-BASE-K on the power 5, doing a Save 21 and
> coming
> forward with the new config. Basically redoing what is already set up on
> the Power 7.
>
>   Are there things that I don;t understand here or can either method,
> albeit time, be
>   considered acceptable. I understand that PTF's will need to be reapplied,
> but that
> seems to be a trivial issue.