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Prerequisites Before Placing an Order
This section will cover the prerequisites of placing an order to upgrade the system.
These include software-related items, hardware considerations, system
configuration considerations, and available services that everyone should know
before placing an order.
You may also need information about logical partitioning. Refer to the web site:
www.as400.ibm.com/LPAR
Version 4 Software Items
See the table on supported releases for software upgrades in the book Software
Installation, SC41-5120-05, to find what versions may be upgraded from and to. For
example, you must be at V4R4 to upgrade to V4R5 or V5R1.
The ″Preparing Program Temporary Fixes Required Before Installing V4R5M0
Software″ section in the Software Installation book describes how to apply PTFs.
Other Software Related Items
v Determine whether there are any additional software charges that are associated
with the processor group change. Two passes must be run on the iSeries 400
configuration program to determine these changes.
v Determine whether there are any additional usage changes because of the
user-based pricing that is associated with the software products on the system.
v Verify with the software service representative, or the business partner, that any
third party software that you use was tested on the software release level
ordered.
v Contact the software service representative for any software considerations and
restrictions that might apply to the model upgrade.
Notes:
1. If you have tape management software, ensure that it uses support that is
available on your target system. Do the following:
a. Type DSPOBJD OBJ(QSYS/QUSTAPEX) OBJTYPE(*PGM)
b. If you receive the message Object QUSTAPEX in library QSYS type *PGM
not found, you do not have this potential problem with tape management
software.
c. If you see the Display Object Description display for the QUSTAPEX
program, press F12 (Cancel). Contact the vendor who supplies your tape
management software to determine how the vendor will provide equivalent
support for your target release.
You may need to order an OS/400 feature called MSE (Media and Storage
Extensions).
2. For other software related questions, see Technical Studio and the book Software
Installation, SC41-5120-05.
Hardware Considerations
v Ensure that a PC has been properly configured as an Operations Console.
v Determine the prerequisite engineering changes and program temporary fixes
(PTFs) that are needed to upgrade the system.
v Determine the attached input-output devices and the operating system.
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