=============================================== SEARCH400.COM EXPERT WEBSPHERE STRATEGIES TIP September 6, 2001 More WebSphere Strategies tips at http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid3_tax2f9,00.html =============================================== SPONSORED BY: Storage Decisions =============================================== TIME IS RUNNING OUT to qualify to attend the FREE Storage Decisions 2001 conference in Chicago September 26-28. Learn to set strategy --make the smartest decisions to most effectively manage your storage initiatives for 2002. Pre-qualified audience of your peers and NO vendor sales pitches. Don't get shut out at this critical event. Visit: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3230205;5058249;z?http://www.StorageDecisions2001.com today! =============================================== WebSphere and V5R1 -- Nice and nasty By Bob Cancilla IBM's WebSphere team has done it again. Be extremely careful when upgrading to V5R1 of OS/400. Our experience was a bit brutal, but as seems to be typical of WebSphere, the product is rock solid once installed and operational. We were running WebSphere 3.5.2 Advanced Edition (the one bundled with WebSphere Commerce Suite) at V4R5 when we started our upgrade. We encountered two issues. First, we were forced to delete and recreate the ADMIN database during the upgrade. We screwed up, so I hope you can avoid our mistake. Be sure to back up the WebSphere Admin database and export it using the XMLConfig utility to a file somewhere in the IFS root before you start your V5R1 upgrade. We could have then restored the ADMIN database. We didn't, and we had to rebuild it from scratch. The second issue we had was the infamous WebSphere console. Since we were behind IBM by one release -- 3.5.2 going to 3.5.4 -- the console failed when we attempted to install the latest console from our iSeries. We had to download the 3.5.3 updates and apply them to our PC clients, then download and apply the update for 3.5.4. You will probably be well advised to obtain each of the updates for the console from the IBM Web site, then apply each one to your PC as opposed to attempting to upgrade the console from your iSeries. After manually rebuilding our ADMIN database (QEJBADMIN) and getting the console sorted out, all went quite well. All of our applications, including WebSphere Commerce Suite, ran extremely well and even slightly faster. There are no significant enhancements, but performance does seem to be better. We are all looking forward to WebSphere 4.0. We've been told that the PC console goes away in V4.0 and that many of the administrative issues we have all suffered through in V3.x have been resolved. Let's hope so. ------------------------- About the author: Bob Cancilla is managing director of IGNITe/400 (http://www.ignite400.org), an electronic iSeries 400 Internet users group. 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