I'm interested in finding out if anyone else has experienced the long
upgradedb Dave mentions with his 5.1.9 to 5.2.3 upgrade on Z/OS? While
we have no current plans for an upgrade (5.1.7.4 on Z/OS 1.4) we have
never experienced anywhere close to this 11 hr window with any of our
upgrades and our db is basically the same size. Would the fact that
we've never been at 4.2 (where the cleanup process first appeared I
believe) play into this?

Just curious, thanks!

David Moore wrote:

Robert -

Both TSM Tech Support and a local consultant recommended that we run the 'cleanup 
backupgroups' utility before we moved up to 5.2 (btw, mine is a z/OS shop and we 
recently moved from 5.1.9 to 5.2.3).  This utility cleans up orphaned database 
objects, which will extend your upgradedb run significantly if not cleaned up.  My 
understanding is that the utility only became available with 5.1.73.  So, we upgraded 
from 5.1.65 to 5.1.9 back in June in preparation for the recent upgrade.  Then, a few 
weeks ago, we went to 5.2.3.

Incidentally, the upgrade from 5.1.9 to 5.2.3 took quite a while for us - about 11 
hours, because of the UPGRADEDB parameter.  My TSM DB is about 23 GB.  Other TSM 
Admins have reported quicker upgrade rates, so your time may very well be better.  
But, as a word of warning, allow a fairly large upgrade window, so you don't have to 
restore to your previous version - like I did the first time I attempted it.

Good luck,
Dave.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Klein, Robert (NIH/CIT)
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:27 AM
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Subject: Migrating to TSM V5.2 on z?OS


Believe it or not, we are still running TSM V4.2.2 on OS/390. We are planning to upgrade our OS to z/OS and, along with that, to upgrade to TSM V5.2. I have heard that on some other platforms (e.g. AIX) one cannot go directly from 4.2.2 to V5x. I don't see anything about such a restriction in the V5.2 for z/OS Quick Start manual, but wanted to check whether anyone was aware of this issue for migration to 5.2 on z/OS. Thanks for any input.

-- Jim Kirkman AIS - Systems UNC-Chapel Hill 919-698-8615

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