We had the same experience. Went from Server level 3.7.3.8 to 4.2.2.12
without any problem at all. We also did a test upgrade to 5.1 and had some
patch issues etc, but we stayed with 4.2 and people seem to view if
favorably. Been working fine. And we only had to re-do licensing too. The
mgsyslan licences foxed me for a few minutes, but that was it.



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I saved off all config files, the accounting log and a bunch of other
things. I backed up the db and was ready for the worst. I needed nothing...
it was very straightforward. The licesnse files need to be installed
properly. I would highly recommend latest ATAPE driver and that is about
it. I didn't need any of the stuff I had saved off... no config changes at
all when upgrade was complete... only had to redo licensing.

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AFC Enterprises



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On AIX 4.3.3. Any notes you have would be great. We are running an IBM 3494
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What OS?
I just did some 3.7.4 to 4.2.x for AIX.

It's pretty straightforward for the server code itself, but watch out for
changes in the startup scripts if you use an externally managed library.



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Doing a Migrate Install from 3.7 to 4.2.11. Do anyone have any notes on
doing this? Any hang ups that they ran into?


Anyone have issues with the following:

Schedules
Tuning
New features that might be on by default
How much configuration do we lose
Lisenceing


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