Re: V7R2 media

I just went through an OS upgrade and it wasn't that bad.. except for the
documentation.

I wish IBM could make it like other OS or even PTFs.. have the system
download the OS by itself, apply PTFs required, install and reboot.

My eyes still hurt from jumping from page to page and back again to make
sure the OS upgrade went ok, and I still missed at least one thing.

As far as V7R2 media... I have all of that... now that I'm on V7R3 do I
need it? Can I hand it off to someone that does?

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:41 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The simplest way is for your business partner to bring you media. If they
are very good said media will already contain all the PTFs to date already
applied. At the least will bring the current PTF media set with them as
well. It will with near certainty be virtual media as nobody has the time
to burn tens of billions of pits into plastic any more.

Personally I think downloading the media from IBM is a pain, I've told
them so, and I'm not going to rehash that here.

Perhaps they need to engage a different vendor for the upgrade than for
their software. MANY (though not all) software BPs are just not skilled in
O/S upgrades and maintenance.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 4/28/2016 10:31 AM, Paul Nelson wrote:

How does one obtain the physical media for V7R2?

Computer Guidance Corporation (a subsidiary of Explorer Software) has
outdone themselves again. They announced that they are forcing customers
to
upgrade, and then gave their customers a list of files to download, unzip,
and ftp.

One of those customers spent over 30 hours with the downloads of the OS,
including junk they don't need.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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