I would underscore Leslie remarks by pointing out that NetView Version 5.0 is
not supported in any usual sense of the term.
There are no fixes for it -- any problems that were reported on 5.0 were fixed
in 5.1 -- and if you do manage to install it, and you have a problem, Level 2
will do their best to advise you how to get around it, but they will not and
cannot take an APAR on a bug for us to fix.  Only current code is fixed or
fixable.   So there is little point in installing 5.0 at this date.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Leslie Clark <lclark AT US.IBM DOT COM> on 09/21/99 08:08:49 AM

Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
      <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>

To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  Re: Installing Netview 5.0 on AIX




Gerry, why do you want to install 5.0 (I think Scott is saying 5.0 is
unsupported too)?
I would avoid it, since an awful lot of bugs have been fixed since then (two
years' worth!)
and nice new functions added.  The current product is measurably more stable, if
you
ask me...

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking


So, if I'm reading this correctly....

Netview 5.0 is supported, but the framework it runs on (3.2) is not supported.
If you
want to get to a supported framework (3.6), you must install Netview 5.1, which
is
a re-install and not an upgrade...

Is this true???

--
Gerry Thome
Berbee Information Networks
thome AT berbee DOT com
(920)997-9420 x 51

You will not be able to install NetView 5.0 on Framework 3.6. Only
NetView 5.1 and up will install on Framework 3.6. Without seeing the
logs I cannot be sure but this is probably the reason for your
installation failure.

NetView 5.0 will install on Framework 3.2 but is unsupported in any
case. As James said, the only course of action we can recommend is
upgrading to NetView 5.1.

--
Scott Donohoo
Tivoli L2 NetView Support