Re: V3r2 to V5R3 (The rest of the story)

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

fyi - in the software box should have been a cd of the Information Center.
I like the old manuals myself, but have had to resort to Info Center cd when
I did not get such a quick support response.
Also - did you apply the encrypted keys to the product licenses yet?
That now requires a net connection for at least your pc to get the keys.
They are no longer shipping the paper with each keyed product.
Machine & products will run with warnings on qsysopr for 70 days till keys 
applied.
jim franz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Barber" <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 11:09 AM
Subject: V3r2 to V5R3 (The rest of the story)


> They are a small wholesale steel distribution business
> with less than 20 employees total.
>
> Customer had a 9402-200. We ordered a 9405-520 (Entry model)
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> The base machine comes with two 35gb drives mirrored up.
> We added 2 more 35gb drives in a reasonable amount of time.
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> We played with getting into DST in a unreasonable amount
> of time due to the total lack of NO manuals of any sort.
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> I finally called support and receive a call back in under 5 minutes.
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> Got drives installed and mirrored up and went to lunch while they
> copied over and balanced up.
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> Started actual conversion at 1:00pm.
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> I restored all their libraries in about an hour. I started the
> object conversions and had all them finished by 2:30.
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> We created all user profiles from scratch.
>
> We started live production testing around 3:00.
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> Sample run times:
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> End of day processing with updates Old= 8 minutes New= 15 seconds
>
> Detail list of all sales with line items for entire year
> with a run time of around 15 minutes. New run time 35 seconds.
> This produced a 185 page report.
>
> We did not have a SINGLE program fail for any reason.
>
> This is a VERY quick machine.
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> The customer was amazed and so was I...
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> This code and files were 12 years old running on a very old machine.
> This was a complete CISC to RISC migration.
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> We did the entire conversion in less than two hours. The testing
> consumed the rest of the time.
>
> We did not have decent internet connections and that of course
> killed my ability to get to the famous "Information Center".
>
> This really hurt me on the DST problem. I would have killed for
> a paper manual.
>
> Today is their first day on the machine and my telephone has not
> made a sound all morning.
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> I spoke to the guy at 9:00am and he said everything was running fine.
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