RE: V3R1 to V4R2

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 04:32 PM 2/23/98 -0600, you wrote:

Neil is correct, if you absolutely, positively know what is and is not used
on the system, you can go off roadmap.  I have personal knowledge of
several smart AS/400 service providers, who have done this.  We were
introduced on the basis of the service provider as the defendant and myself
as an expert witness.  One of the service providers lost of the
billing/time recording calendars that were kept in Office Vision for the
last 8 years for a major law firm.

Follow the roadmap, follow the roadmap, follow the roadmap.

Al



>The key for doing an upgrade in this manner is that you MUST know your
>application intimately.
>Yes, QUSRSYS contains all the wonderful stuff like your system directory
>entries, OfficeVision enrollment entries Calendars Supplementary
>Spelling Dictionaries and Text Search Indexes, Security
>Journals/Receivers, SNADS queues, Problem Logs & Journals/receivers,
>Service Provider/Contact Information, TCP/IP server configuration &
>table file, Filer Server Storage Spaces, Job Scheduler Entries, Fax/400
>profiles & OTHER STUFF.
>
>       That's what I meant by "manually setting up all the config,
>system directory, communications, etc. etc".
>       It was all covered in the "etc. etc".     :-)
>
>       BUT - if you are a very small shop (basically a few dumb
>terminals and a single AS/400 application that you KNOW inside & out),
>and are not using any remote communications, TCP/IP, OfficeVision, or
>any other fancy applications (Fax/400, etc.), AND have only a few user
>profiles that you can manually recreate (along with and system directory
>entries required for CA/400), and maybe only a daily backup entry on you
>job scheduler that you can manually recreate, then you CAN upgrade in
>the method I mentioned.  I have done it several times for VERY SMALL
>accounts, and will stand up publicly and state that I did NOT use the
>Roadmap on those occasions.  Actually, for the very first upgrade to
>RISC I did I was sort of forced into this method as I couldn't get hold
>of the Roadmap.  No one should have that problem today.
>       So - although I do NOT encourage others to do the same, in a
>small enough situation it IS possible to do a CISC to RISC upgrade in
>this manner.
>
>Neil Palmer                                AS/400~~~~~      
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:        Al Barsa, Jr. [SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net]
>> Sent:        Saturday, February 21, 1998 2:32 PM
>> To:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>> Subject:     RE: V3R1 to V4R2 
>> 
>> At 03:45 PM 2/19/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> >You can always upgrade by getting a new machine, manually setting up
>> all
>> >the config, system directory, communications, etc. etc, then
>> unloading
>> >all your libraries, to tape and restoring on the new machine, making
>> >sure you have all the user profiles and authorities etc. 
>> >BUT - if you want to use the CISC to RISC Roadmap and the supporting
>> >code for the upgrade, then you need to be at V3R2 if you are going to
>> go
>> >to V4R2 on your RISC machine.
>> 
>> With all due respect to Neil, you will loose any IBM data in QUSRSYS,
>> and
>> some of that data may be specific to your applications.
>> 
>> Al
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L
>> 
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