As I understand, support for TSM 4.1 expires June 30, 2002. So if you want to be supported, you have no choice but to upgrade to TSM 4.2.
We too have been trying to implement EC017 on our NSM, and have had two failed attempts at the upgrade. The upgrade to AIX 5 and TSM 4.2.1.9 requires an AIX load from 4mm tape. We got a bad 4mm tape. You know, WORN technology (Write Once, Read Never). About 10% of the way into the upgrade to AIX 5 we couldn't read the tape. Tried and tried and tried. But it was bad. We had to recover from the MKSYSB we did that morning. That's why we take MKSYSB's. The second time we tried the EC script failed because \dbaa1dk31\db has on HDISK2. Huh? How did that happen. It turned out that when the recover was done from the MKSYSB all the HDISKS were renumbered by AIX. It took us a couple days with Level II support to get that straightened around. Took Level II about 4 hours dialed in running AIX commands to re-do things and put \dbaa1dk31\db back on HDISK31. We have scheduled our third attempt at EC017 for Sunday, June 30. I've also been told by Level II that anyone preparing to install EC017 should open a PMR prior to the upgrade so support can track the activity. I was also told that not very many NSM sites have done this upgrade, so many will be out of support. And what's this about OS patch 5100-02. Where do I get it and where do I find these kinds of patches? Is there some piece of documentation I've missed or did I just not catch something? Good luck to all!!! John G. Talafous Information Systems Technical Principal Global Software Support - Data Management telephone: (330)-471-3390 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctnvm.inside.tkr/~talafous/ http://www.cis.corp.inside.tkr/networkstorage/
