You are mixing a problem that can happen from adding a single APAR at any time. It's not really applicable to the length of the (long or short) JUMP. A stand alone LPAR (which this OP has) is not going to be incompatible in a way that makes installing an intermediate level make any sense. Even in your case, it was something that you accidentally added to the new system without first having that support on the old system. Unfortunately it can happen, but that's what the migration guide(s) and due diligence are for, and sometimes even that can get rained on by IBM. I didn't say that they guy should blindly jump into the newer release without making sure that he addressed all of the changes.
In your case, it really didn't have anything to do with the length of the migration jump (i.e. N+anything), and it's unfortunate, but that kind of thing can happen just putting on next month's put tape or the next RSU. It's something that you have to be wary of, but installing a intermediate operating system between 2.1 and 2.4 would not have changed the outcome of your problem in any way. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
