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From: "Mark Zelden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Question on RACF database upgrade for z/OS 1.7->1.8
On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:22:21 -0400, Pinnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
You'll have to check with IBM on the specifics of whether a 1.8 templates
will be accepted on a 1.7 system. We had a 1.5 database that IBM swore up
and down would run on 1.4, until we had to run IRRUT400 while we were
still
at 1.4. IRRUT400 gagged, choked, and coughed trying to update the 1.5
database at the 1.4 level. Everything else worked, but it put a severe
crimp in our upgrade path.
That is the nice thing about the new support. You don't have to actually
run the update until you have an LPAR that you know won't be backed out
to the lower level.
But I'm still surprised about your problem, because we've always updated
the templates as we were getting ready to IPL our first sharing LPAR in
the
past. And I'm pretty sure we did the 1.6 templates when IPLing on a
weekend for an initial test and then backed off to z/OS 1.4 without any
problems.
As far as your particular problem... did you try and STEPLIB to the 1.5
level
of IRRUT400?
Mark,
This was about 3 years ago, so the details are fuzzy. The client ordered an
immediate backout to the 1.4 database. Can't remember what we tried at the
time.
Tom
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