RE: Upgrading to V5R1

Paul,

According to some info that I got emailed to me from my Geac Acct Mgr, you need to be a 352 SP4 in order to use V5R1.  This is what I found out: 

Business Information Database
Product Support Information Sheet
                                                                       
Date : 05/16/2001    Version : General    Number : 556    Issue : 1.0

        System21 and OS/400 V5R1

Geac Enterprise Solutions has completed testing System21 V3.5.2 SP4 using
OS/400 V5R1 platform. The automated regression test suite performed
exhibited no problems.

Geac Enterprise Solutions therefore certifies System21 for running on the
OS/400 V5R1 platform.

It should be acknowledged that changes made in V5R1 could cause a problem
in some of the many possible configurations of System21. It would be
impossible to test all these configurations therefore in the unlikely event
of a problem being found this should be reported using Problem Recording
clearly identifying in the problem that you believe it to be a OS/400 V5R1
problem. Such problems will be given top priority.

During the testing, a number of new features of OS/400 have highlighted some
possible issues in relation to System21. These are highlighted below:

Longer library lists

OS/400 now allows for library lists to contain up to 250 libraries (previous
limit was 25). If a long (i.e. more than 25) library list is set before
going into System Manager or System21, the application will crash as it
attempts to save a list longer than it expects. This is logged as
AM/V3/1166. This feature is switchable and the default after upgrade is off.

The ability to define library lists of more than 25 libraries within
System21 is being investigated and we are looking to release an update to
System Manager to take advantage of this.

Longer passwords

OS/400 now allows for case sensitive and longer passwords. If this new
feature is activated, it may cause problems with some PC client applications
which expect the AS/400 password to be a maximum of 10 characters and in
uppercase. This affects older versions of Operations Navigator and can be
overcome by not using the new feature. This feature is also switchable and
the default after upgrade is off.

Good luck with this.  Please share what you find with all of us as we will be going down this road in the future.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Crabtree [mailto:PCrabtree@fossil.com]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 9:24 AM
To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
Subject: Upgrading to V5R1

Has anyone upgraded their AS/400 (sorry IBM, I mean iSeries) to V5R1 with
System/21 software? What problems, if any, were encountered?

This question always comes up when a new release of OS/400 comes out but
with the major changes/enhancements that come in this new release I think
the question needs asking.

I appreciate any feedback.

Paul Crabtree.
Fossil, Inc.
pcrabtree@fossil.com
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