Sorry to hear that. I just went through this similar upgrade without a
hitch, and I'm planning two more.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Rhodes, Richard L. <
rrhodes AT firstenergycorp DOT com> wrote:

> This is half plea for help and half rant (grrrrrr).
>
> For the past two months we've been trying to test a TSM v6.3.5 to
> v7.1.4/v7.1.5 upgrade . . . . and have completely failed!
>
> TSM v6.3.5
> AIX 6100-09
> upgrade to TSM v7.1.4 and/or v7.1.5
>
> When we run the upgrade it runs to this status message:
>     Installing: [(99%) com.tivoli.dsm.server.db2.DB2PostInstall ]
> Then it sits, doing nothing.  AIX sees no db2 activity, no java activity,
> no nothing.  It sits for hours!  We've let it sit once for 13 hours
> (overnight) and the above message was still there.  Eventually we kill it.
>
> We've tried:
>   two separate AIX systems
>   two separate TSM's (one 400gb db and one 100gb db)
>   probably tried 8-10 upgrades, all failed
>
> Support had us try a DB2 standalone upgrade and it also never finished.
>
> We've worked with support and got nowhere.  They have no idea what is
> happening, let alone any idea of how to figure out what is happening.  They
> did find one issue - we have to install a base XLC runtime v13.1.0.0 before
> the v7 upgrade.
>
> Any thoughts are welcome.
>
> Rick
>
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