Fyi,
When I upgraded on AIX I had went from 6.3.4.0 to 7.1.3.0 and then to
7.1.5.100 with no issues.
Date (GMT) Version Pre-release Driver
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
2016/06/01 18:29:52 7.1.3.0
2016/06/07 17:11:31 7.1.5.0
AIX 6100-09
next two upgrade are on AIX 7100-04
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Zoltan Forray <zforray AT vcu DOT edu> wrote:
> Since I need to upgrade 6-TSM servers (2-of them at the same time since
> they are Library Managers) to 7.1.5.200, I am closely following this
> thread/discussion about upgrade issues.
>
> Have all these woes only been on AIX system?
>
> I tested an old decommissioned server (all user data had been exported to
> another TSM server) and upgraded from 6.3.5.100 to 7.1.3.00 base (Passport
> downloaded with license keys) and then to 7.1.5.100 with no issues. Of
> course, mine are all RedHat 6 Linux.
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Rhodes, Richard L. <
> rrhodes AT firstenergycorp DOT com> wrote:
>
> > We've been testing . . . we tried walking all the upgrades:
> >
> > - brought up a 6.3.5 tsm db
> > - tried upgrade to 7.1.4, it failed/hung (yup, responds like all our
> tests)
> > - restored snapshots back to the 6.3.5 setup
> > - tried upgrade v7.1 - WORKED, TSM comes up fine
> > - tried upgrade to v7.1.1.1 - upg utility said there was nothing to
> > upgrade!
> > - tried upgrade to v7.3 - Upgrade worked, but TSM hangs on startup
> >
> > The v7.3 upgrade installed just fine and the upgrade utility ended. But
> > when we try to start TSM it just sits there hung. While TSM is sitting
> > there "hung" trying to come up, we do a "ps -ef | grep db2" and found
> that
> > DB2 was NOT UP. (should have checked that sooner!)
> >
> > ps -ef | egrep -i "db2|dsm"
> > tsmuser 12910806 14221316 0 10:26:23 pts/4 0:00
> > /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv -i /tsmdata/tsmsap1/config
> > tsmuser 17432632 12910806 0 10:26:24 pts/4 0:00 db2set -i tsmuser
> > DB2_PMODEL_SETTINGS
> > root 19988546 1 0 09:55:59 - 0:00
> > /opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/bin/db2fmcd
> >
> >
> > You can leave the TSM startup "hung" like this for hours and it never
> goes
> > any further.
> >
> > We keep digging. Support sent us to the DB2 team, hopefully they can
> help.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Rhodes, Richard L.
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 3:32 PM
> > To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> > Cc: Ake, Elizabeth K. <akee AT firstenergycorp DOT com>
> > Subject: v7 upgrade woes
> >
> > 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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