Re: AS400 Migration Question!

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Hi Sajithp,

even with a tape you can make mistakes in migration, so first step would be to have
a plan *what* to migrate. Libraries, IFS objects, User profiles, System settings
(System values, edit codes).

Migration without tape needs usage of FTP. You should at least know how to
FTP save files from system A to B.

Then you should save the system information (sysvals, edit codes etc) from
System A to B using RTVSYSINF and UPDSYSINF.

This can be done and is not rocket science if you do this more than once a year.
If you never did, you should have a specialist do this (by remote?) because
there is some pitfalls.

For migrating without tape the experts here (we are legion :) do have a plan
as sometimes you need to migrate over several 1000 miles without being
able to ship a tape.

-h

Am 08.06.2020 um 16:10 schrieb Sajith P <sajithp@xxxxxxxxx>:

Team, I am a non-AS400 Team Lead and my experience is in UNIX side. I have
a migration coming up where a customer is shipping IBM hardware (914) to
our datacenter and a tape drive (TS3100).

I have a S824 with some IBMi core license, but no tape drive.
I got the AS400 Team to install a fresh IBMi (7.x) on an LPAR.

Is there any way I can migrate things without tape? My IBMi engineers are
uncomfortable, at the same time on the UNIX side, we never do a bare metal
installation like Full system save and restore.

I am very uncomfortable doing this over the weekend without a backout plan,
since once the hardware is shipped I am in the hook.

Tape drive is the only option?

Thank you for your quick response.

Sajith P
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