The best result I heared so far was a customer who switched his RS/6000 in the NSM with a windows 2000 server, and also used the SSA disks took same time and less pain......
Peter At 15:24 20-06-2002 -0400, you wrote: >As I understand, support for TSM 4.1 expires June 30, 2002. So if you want >to be supported, you have no choice but to upgrade to TSM 4.2. > >We too have been trying to implement EC017 on our NSM, and have had two >failed attempts at the upgrade. The upgrade to AIX 5 and TSM 4.2.1.9 >requires an AIX load from 4mm tape. We got a bad 4mm tape. You know, WORN >technology (Write Once, Read Never). About 10% of the way into the upgrade >to AIX 5 we couldn't read the tape. Tried and tried and tried. But it was >bad. We had to recover from the MKSYSB we did that morning. That's why we >take MKSYSB's. > >The second time we tried the EC script failed because \dbaa1dk31\db has on >HDISK2. Huh? How did that happen. It turned out that when the recover was >done from the MKSYSB all the HDISKS were renumbered by AIX. It took us a >couple days with Level II support to get that straightened around. Took >Level II about 4 hours dialed in running AIX commands to re-do things and >put \dbaa1dk31\db back on HDISK31. > >We have scheduled our third attempt at EC017 for Sunday, June 30. I've also >been told by Level II that anyone preparing to install EC017 should open a >PMR prior to the upgrade so support can track the activity. I was also told >that not very many NSM sites have done this upgrade, so many will be out of >support. > >And what's this about OS patch 5100-02. Where do I get it and where do I >find these kinds of patches? Is there some piece of documentation I've >missed or did I just not catch something? > >Good luck to all!!! >John G. Talafous >Information Systems Technical Principal >Global Software Support - Data Management >telephone: (330)-471-3390 >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.ctnvm.inside.tkr/~talafous/ >http://www.cis.corp.inside.tkr/networkstorage/
