RE: BRMS PTF Interpretation

We upgrade our sandbox ASAP.
Then some other lpars.
Then we upgrade our Dev-HA and our Prod-HA the same day. That weekend we switch to them, upgrade Dev-Main and Prod-Main, and switch back.

Only time we've been burned was our P9 upgrade. We decided not to upgrade the box running the sandbox and left it as a P8. The app in question has been migrated off platform due to the amount of time it took for IBM to resolve that.

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 8:57 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: BRMS PTF Interpretation

As stated below the last of our LPARs will be done in September. Several will be done way before then.

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 8:43 AM
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Cc: Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: BRMS PTF Interpretation

Rob,

When do plan on going to V7R4?

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 8:40 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: BRMS PTF Interpretation

We don't wait "months" between getting PTF's in sync. Normally they all get synced up within a week. OS level's take a little longer. When they come out with a new OS level we put it on a few test or lowest use LPARs right away. The others wait until our next scheduled quarterly downtime. Our June downtime is before GA of 7.4 or you can bet that we'd have a lot, if not all, of our 15 LPARs to that level right then and there. Count on it for September.

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Kevin Monceaux
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 8:53 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: BRMS PTF Interpretation

Paul,

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 12:45:33AM +0000, Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

I've applied the BRMS PTFs to DEV/R&D, production was always done weeks/months later.
Never had an issue.

That's good to hear. Thinking back to when we first migrated to our 8286-41A, we had BRMS running on a mix of OS versions, both 7.1 and 7.2.