Found the problem.

Apparently the upgrade utility requires the account to access the tsm v5
server to be an actual login account.  That is, you can ssh to the box as
that id and enter the ID and PWD of the account and get a shell.  We had
tried rsh and ssh setups without pwd's (ssh with public/private keys set).
 This allowed cmd execution but not a login.    That wasn't good enough.
We had to make root to be allowed to login to access the tsm v5 db (we are
setup to run tsm v5 as root).

Rick





From:   Zoltan Forray <zforray AT VCU DOT EDU>
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:   09/11/2013 03:09 PM
Subject:        Re: help - tsm vg upgrade test
Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



Did you install the Server Upgrade utilities for the level you are
upgrading from? For instance, when I did my conversion from 5.5.7 to V6.3
Linux, I downloaded and installed:

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com//storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/server-upgrade/v5r5/Linux/5.5.7.000/x86_64/5.5.7.000-TIV-TSMUPG-LinuxX64.tar.bz2


which when installed, contains dsmupgrd


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Richard Rhodes
<rrhodes AT firstenergycorp DOT com
> wrote:

> We are trying a first test of the tsm v6 upgrade procedure for a v5 tsm
> server.
> We are trying the network method.  We restored the tsm v5 db to a test
> system
> and setup a tsm v6 install on a different test system.
>
>   lpar A - tsm v5 db (source)
>   lpar B - tsm v6 system (destination)
>
> On lpar B we are running the gui upgrade wizard dsmupgdx.
> Following the prompts we enter what it wants:
>   server for the tsm v5 db, userid, pwd
>   begin new upgrade
>   phase = "prepare the db for the upgrade"
>   location of dsmserv.dsk and dsmserv.opt
>   gives a list of tsm v5 db and log volumes - it's correct
>   Then . . . get this ERROR:
>      Beginning database preparation...
>      sh[129]: /usr/tivoli/tsm/upgrade/bin/dsmupgrd:  not found.
>      Preparation completed with return code 499
>
> It can't find /usr/tivoli/tsm/upgrade/bin/dsmupgrd, which exists:
>   <lparB>:/home/root==>ls -ld /usr/tivoli/tsm/upgrade/bin/dsmupgrd
>   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     system     21221457 Oct 24 2011
> /usr/tivoli/tsm/upgrade/bin/dsmupgrd
>
> The utility is communicating with the tsm v5 system just fine - it
> found the dsmserv.dsk/dsmserv.opt.  The dsmupgrd is there.
>
> Any thoughts on what we are doing wrong?
>
> Rick
>
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