Re: AS400 Migration Question!

Well if your neck is on the line and you are a team lead, then you should contact vendor/Business Partner/consultant with experience of such migrations and pay them to do it for you. Be sure that they give you at least two options for migration and decide base on risk and acceptable downtime.

From my experience there is a big difference between knowledgeable IBMi technicians and consultants and operations technicians, doing repetitive daily tasks and keeping things running.

Regards,
Tsvetan

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Sajith P <sajithp@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 5:24:18 PM
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Subject: Re: AS400 Migration Question!

Thank you!

I have a 10G Pipe and have migrated a 16TB across the wire (oracle ERP).
The largest one in AS400 is 1TB. I am not sure if there is some document
somewhere I can ensure we follow from AS400 side!

I am more nervous than AS400 since once hardware is shipped, my neck seems
to be on the line :(

-SP


On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:09 AM <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there a way, sure, but not realistic ones unless the volume of data is
small. I think your IBM i engineers are nervous for good reason. IBM i is
NOT Unix, and cannot be dealt with like Unix.

/Vendor Response
We at Agile can (and have) done these before, many times. Maybe give us a
try. We spend our money on education for our engineers and such as opposed
to massive marketing..... BTW we speak both Unix (AIX or Linux in POWER's
case) and IBM i.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 9:11 AM
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Subject: AS400 Migration Question!

Team, I am a non-AS400 Team Lead and my experience is in UNIX side. I have
a
migration coming up where a customer is shipping IBM hardware (914) to our
datacenter and a tape drive (TS3100).

I have a S824 with some IBMi core license, but no tape drive.
I got the AS400 Team to install a fresh IBMi (7.x) on an LPAR.

Is there any way I can migrate things without tape? My IBMi engineers are
uncomfortable, at the same time on the UNIX side, we never do a bare metal
installation like Full system save and restore.

I am very uncomfortable doing this over the weekend without a backout plan,
since once the hardware is shipped I am in the hook.

Tape drive is the only option?

Thank you for your quick response.

Sajith P
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