Re: AS/400 E35 series....

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

An option might be to power it down prior to the roll over.  Then power it back 
up.  See what happens.  To test this use GO SAVE and option 21 to save your 
entire 
system first.  Change your date and time to just before.  Do the power down.  
Power it back up and see what happens.  Recommendation is that you then do a 
complete 
system restore - microcode and all.

Heck, it might not be a bad idea to do a complete system save shortly before 
anyways.  
Worst case you can then play the change the date game until you figure out what 
to do.

Have your applications been behaving?  What kind of shop are you running?  For 
example if you are running MRP is it forecasting correctly?

All this should have been done prior to now of course.  The people that are 
giving 
you recommendations to upgrade your system are correct.  I am just trying to 
answer 
your question as to what may go wrong.  Judging by the plethora of IBM ptf's 
for y2k 
- plenty!  I feel your attitude "if it ain't broke don't fix it".  We have an 
old E04 
running an application we hope to obsolete within a week.  I originally wanted 
to 
leave it at V2R3 instead of upgrading to V3.  Those cross reference files that 
originated with V3 suck some disk space.  I upgraded just so my development 
machine 
could compile down to that level.  You can take the "if it ain't broke don't 
fix it" 
too far.  My dad didn't even want to change the oil on his truck.





barsa2@ibm.net on 12/16/99 10:05:30 AM
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At 03:41 PM 12/16/1999 +0530, you wrote:


>Dear All,
>I have E35 series AS/400 machine with OS version V2R3M0.
>According to the IBM, the machine is not Y2K compliant and the behaviour 
>of the
>OS is not predictable after Dec 31 1999. Can anyone tell me what will be the
>fate of this machine after 31-12-99 and will it be useful for any purpose, 
>if at
>all it comes up after 31-12-99.
You need to go to V3R2.

Al




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