Re: Questions about migrations between power5 and power7 And, re-spin/resave

Rob:

That system is currently running and in production, it seems that
whoever sold them the migration promised to do it on the target
machine and only then, save the user's data and restore it onto the
upgraded system.
Said "specialist" is not available right now which is the reason i
took things into my own hands, if it fails it's just "delete ASP" and
start over if not i learn a lot.
I will proceed to restore the v5r4m5 as is (lic included) to my test
520 and do the revised steps as per DrFranken's mail.
I'm not sure if when buying a 720 new with SWSA from IBM 7.1 is
included or only 6.1 (i think they could go 7.1 since a friend of mine
had the 6.1 DVDs from a 520 that never got upgraded but was under
support when 6.1 came out), but i doubt they will go 7.1 even if they
can (there is a big "not broken? don't fix it" here in Arg).

I'm a iseries/xseries hardware guy at a small shop, we deal mostly
with out-of-support/EOL machines, just lask week i was helping with a
migration from v4r5 on a 9406-720 to v5r2 on a 9406-810...

Thanks for the quick answers.

Best Regards,

I would think that would work.
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssm1platformibmi
Why not 7.1? It's supported on both the 520 and the 720 and coming from
V5R4 is still within n+2.
Is the machine you did the save with dead (since you are more "hardware" I
wonder)? If not, could it be upgraded and resaved?
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/osmapping.html