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You have two options. 1. Do a scratch install. Not my preference. 2. Go from V4R4 to V5R1. If you are going to immediately go to the next release (and not do any meaningful operations, don't PTF, except for the required PTF's for V5R3. Then immediately go to V5R3. Once again if you are not going to do any meaningful operations, then go to V5R4 and PTF. Note that both V5R3 and V5R4 have required PTFs from prior releases. Missing these is very painful. Doing all of these convoluted steps means that you will preserve all your stuff, including data in QUSRSYS, system values, network attributes. The last time we scratched (V5R1) was too painful to re-visit. Not to preannounce anything I might say at Soundoff, V5R4 is the third release in a row from IBM that is very stable out of the shoot. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z" e gads Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor! 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com http://www.as400connection.com "Gary Kuznitz" <docfxit@theoffic e.la> To Sent by: Midrange Systems Technical midrange-l-bounce Discussion s@xxxxxxxxxxxx <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc 03/23/2006 12:15 Subject PM Re: Going from v4r4 to v5r3 or 4 Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midra nge.com> Hi Rob, Thanks for the input. On 23 Mar 2006 at 8:16, rob@xxxxxxxxx (rob@xxxxxxxxx <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>) commented about Re: Going from v4r4 to v5r3 or 4: > "Should" is a business case. I figure these people hate going through > upgrades if they are still running V4R4. Therefore whatever you start > them out on they will probably be stuck with for a long time. Therefore > I'd start them out on V5R4. I will defiantly end up with v5r4 on the box. The only question is how I get there and how many hours it takes to get there. I was hoping someone that has made that jump would chime in. I don't know what conversions (under the covers) have taken place at each version upgrade and if all of the changes will still get applied with such a large jump. At the moment I'm thinking of following Jim Franz's suggestion and: "If you just want to load your profiles and libs, I would stay at 5.3 (making the difference between the 2 boxes the fewest skipped releases possible), load your stuff, then upgrade to 5.4 and apply ptfs." Of course I will apply the latest CUM on 5.3 and do a backup before loading any profiles and libs. The down side is I'll need to do a bunch of testing three times. Once on 5.3 to see if it was successful and then after I install 5.4 then again when I'm ready to update to the live files. I'm hoping someone else that has made the jump will tell me there wasn't any significant conversions done under the covers from 5.3 to 5.4 so I might as well just bite the bullet and see what happens from 4.4 to 5.4. If I remember right there was some internal conversion done from 4.4 to 4.5 and then again going to 5.1. Is anyone in the know that remembers? Thank you, Gary Kuznitz > Rob Berendt > -- > Group Dekko Services, LLC > Dept 01.073 > PO Box 2000 > Dock 108 > 6928N 400E > Kendallville, IN 46755 > http://www.dekko.com > > > > > > "Gary Kuznitz" <docfxit@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx > 03/22/2006 06:06 PM > Please respond to > Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > To > Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > cc > > Subject > Going from v4r4 to v5r3 or 4 > > > > > > > I have a new 520 being shipped tomorrow with v5r3. I have an old box > running v4r4. Does anyone know if I should load v5r4 on the 520 before > trying to convert from v4r4? > > Does anyone know how to convert from v4r4 to v5r3 or 4? > > Thank you, > > Gary Kuznitz > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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