Why not just delete everything you don't need, then run RCLSTG? You can't
vouch for your tape drives, but you are willing to restore from a save?
Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
OccaseMac
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 8:53 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Cleaning old AS/400 machine
Hi Rob,
Sorry to respond to the wrong post.
Why is this risky to use the install media? It's ok for us because we have
nothing to save on this machine and also would like to erase the drives.
Here, i have a lot of things modified decades ago like the QSTRUPPGM and too
many other things i can't list. If we restore a save, all this will be
restored too, no?
Best regards,
Felix
-----Message d'origine-----
De : MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Rob
Berendt
Envoyé : mardi 12 juin 2018 14:19
À : Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Objet : Re: Cleaning old AS/400 machine
I would strongly recommend you go into DSPLICKEY and copy the ones off for
the current serial number and release. Keep in mind that some programs may
be back level. For example, You may be at V4R5 but it still may be running
some oddball thing from earlier.
Rob Berendt
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From: "Occase Mac" <occasemac@xxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 06/12/2018 08:07 AM
Subject: Cleaning old AS/400 machine
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi everyone,
We have two machines, old but but perfectly working : 9401-150 and
9402-400. We use it very often to when one of us has to test some COBOL
code without touching our production machine.
Because these two machines have been originally installed a lot of years
ago and now are full of various data, programs and configuration we would
like to remove.
In order to to that, we thought it would be better to perform a clean
install from CDs and clearing the disks to start over.
Because of our different moves these 15 or 20 last years, we are unable to
find the original CDs that were provided with.
IBM told me that the machine were not supported anymore so they are not
able to provide it. Our representative advised me to find CDs by myself
and
that i should ask here. I asked several resellers but they can't
understand
i need only the discs and not the licenses as our machines are already
licensed.
So if someone is able to retrieve old copies of the operating system
installation CDs, it would be very helpful for us. We need V4R5 and V4R4
(need to confirm exactly the installed versions).
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards
Felix
midrange.com
