RE: 7.1 to 7.3 upgrade

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

oops---  from v7r1 to v7r3!!


At 9:02 PM -0500 3/13/18, PaulMmn wrote:
> One additional link:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20i%20and%20Related%20Software/page/Required%20PTFs%20for%20upgrading%20to%20IBM%20i%207.3
>
>
> These are the PTFs you MUST have to upgrade from V7R1 to V7R2.
>
> We're about to upgrade a utility partition from 7.1 to 7.3.  We've 
> loaded the last V7R1 cumulative PTFs, all of the group PTFs, and the 
> 'upgrade' PTFs.  They're all applied *PERM.  Except one on the 
> 'upgrade' list that got missed.
>
> We upgraded 2 other LPARs about a year ago.  We still have the 3 
> manuals in the other Paul's list, with our notes, highlights, and 
> sticky notes.  Those notes &c were the result of hours of review, 
> checking, sending messages to software vendors to get their patched 
> code, updating applications, reviewing the Notices to Users (both of 
> them) for things that have changed, and have been omitted.
>
> All of the preparation made the actual upgrade a very 'easy' afternoon!
>
> Start reading!  (:
>
> --Paul E Musselman
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