Re: V5R4 to what, and likely only until January

I would upgrade, then again, I would have upgraded long ago. There are so
many shops that feel that they won't upgrade because of some short term
issue only to find out they ended up shooting themselves in the foot
repeatedly. It is a slippery slope. First you drop software maintenance
on your IBM i. Then you drop hardware maintenance. Then you drop
maintenance on your vendor packages, etc. Now, the decision comes around
that the transition to another platform isn't going well and it is decided
to go to latest release on Power 7. You call your vendors up and ask for
a version blessed for ANZOBJCVN and 7.1. Since you dropped maintenance
they quote you a price that make you feel like Ned Beatty in
"Deliverance". I head up the BPCS-L list and I have seen this too many
times.

I think it's fair to say that many upgrades will consume some additional
disk space. You can reduce this by ensuring that all PTF's you have are
permanently applied before you upgrade your OS. But I suspect the risk is
still there. What is often a concern, disk wise, when you do an upgrade
is the minimum size of your load source disk drives. Covered in the MTU.
But (and you want to verify this) based on what I am reading in the thread
you should be covered.
Your percent full, 67-68%, doesn't look that bad. And I am a guy who
often runs with a TB or so of free disk space on some lpars.

I see that someone gave you an upgrade time line. I may still have some
sheets of upgrade times broken down into detail of
getting to restricted state
save
perm ptf apply
upgrade
ptf
perhaps an additional SAVSYS
submission of STROBJCVN
But what will REALLY take some time? Passing ANZOBJCVN. Weeks? Months?
Start on that now.


Rob Berendt