Re: Upgrades to POWER6

[Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

same here.  the *only* issue we had was on our test system.  we had 
ordered a used LTO tape drive that was hosed from the start, "borrowed" 
the one from our Notes LPAR (Notes admin never even knew...i love small 
shops!!!) and we were off to the races.  HMCs are nice things to have to 
dodge all of the PC based ops console garbage...


Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:   "Burns, Bryan" <Bryan_Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:     "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   10/30/2009 08:36 AM
Subject:        Upgrades to POWER6
Sent by:        midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Well, take note then that our 520 to E4A upgrade was the smoothest we've
had in 10 years.  Ditto for our V5R3 to V5R4 OS upgrade.  Not a single
user issue for either upgrade.

We did the upgrade in May and it was so seamless that I find myself
taken aback sometimes when I'm reminded of it.

Bryan Burns
ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 7:55 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: New 520 - Does the OS come pre-installed?

Aaron,

I cannot help you, but I have to say something.

I am NOT looking forward to the day when my company needs to replace the
520
with Power i equipment.  The amount of trouble people like you and Lukas
and
Pete had and are having getting new machines set up and running gives me
the
willies.  I want simplicity, not this new complexity being introduced.

Just my $.02.


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Aaron Bartell
<aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I am now in section "Initial IBM i OS configuration" (
> http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/GettingStarted).
>
> Upon first logging in with QSECOFR/QSECOFR it requires you to change
the
> QSECOFR password.  No issue, I did that and proceeded to the next step
of
> putting the system into manual mode, was prompted by the DST logon
prompt,
> and I entered QSECOFR and the *new* password.  Well, it didn't take
the new
> password, so I tried QSECOFR as the password - no go.  And now it is
> telling
> me "Id disabled" when I try to log in.  When I do an F1 on that
message to
> get more info it just takes me to the help for the screen, so I don't
even
> have a message id to do a search on to see how to resolve the issue.
This
> is the only page I could find, but it requires that I am able to log
in to
> DST to enable a DST profile - thanks IBM: