Re: Applying a system plan.

[Kirk Goins <kgoins@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/27/2010 2:13 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Your vendor sends you a stripped down system plan.  You noticed his
> concentration was primarily on getting the cards in the right slots.  He
> used dummy figures for memory and processor and lpars are not in the right
> order.  Tagged I/O was generally ignored.  You also retrieve a system plan
> from your current system using your HMC.  Has everything.  However, you
> are upgrading from 9406 to 9117.  Thus "System name" will change.  In the
> process you will also be removing two 5088's and their attached 5094's.
> Some tagged I/O will be changing as a result.  How do I come up with a way
> to do this without having to rekey all my partitions profiles by hand like
> I just had to do last week when upgrading my M25 to an E4A?  (Even though
> rekeying 5 partitions of which one is Linux and one is a guested i on i
> partition and only having two errors - an external DVD declared required
> instead of desired and setting one partition to IPL from D - is pretty
> good.)
>
>
> Rob Berendt
>    
#1 Replace your BP or work with them to make sure the Sysplans are correct.
#2 Replace your BP and Download the SPT and correct all the errors and 
omissions
    http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/tools/systemplanningtool

Before I get flamed for telling people to replace their BP, I work for a 
BP and am the guy doing the Sysplans etc. While the plan that was 
provided was good enough to Order the System with, it wasn't good enough 
to implement/install/migrate etc.  Also depending on the system and a 
correct SPT/Sysplan IBM will ( for a fee of course ) position all the HW 
and I think install i5/IBM i per the Sysplan.