Re: System Migration/No Tape Drive Compatibility

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lukas,

  I think you missed the line "disk storage is an issue."  Otherwise 
great plan!

 - DrFranken

On 4/15/2010 10:59 AM, Lukas Beeler wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 16:20, Jack Kingsley<iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>    
> > Looking for alternatives to moving *ALLUSR libraries between 2 systems,
> > original approach was going to create save file for every library excluding
> > '#' and 'Q's on the system then FTP them over, disk storage is an issue.
> > Could you drag and drop them via ISERIES access??  Going from V5R4 to V6R1
> > machine, looking for alternative(s).
> >      
> Do a Save 21 to a virtual tape on the V5R4 machine.
>
> FTP the virtual tape to the V6R1 machine.
>
> DUPTAP the virtual tape to V6R1's system's tape.
>
> Proceed as usual. You now have a Save 21 from the old machine in the
> new tape format.
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