V6R1 Program Conversion on System i
Kim Greene
If you are looking for information related to the program conversion on System i that happens when upgrading to V6R1, you may want to check out some recent articles I wrote. The intention was to have one article, but it ended up being too big to fit in the space available in the magazine. The compromise was to split it into the main article included in the magazine and two web exclusives. Here are links to all three articles:
"Preparing for V6R1, What to Expect During Your Conversion"
"Tips for Working With the V6R1 Conversion Tool"
One of the biggest gotchas, IMO, is that the program conversion tool doesn't pick up the Domino libraries by default when estimating how long the program conversion times for libraries will take. This would be a nasty one for customer to miss, as conversion of the Domino libraries can take over an hour in some worse case scenarios. Even worse, if the customer doesn't realize that Domino gets converted because the tool doesn't report it by default, they may not find out about the program conversion until they start the Domino servers after the upgrade to V6R1. Because of the time required to convert the Domino libraries, the server most likely won't start and could produce some strange errors. This would not be a fun upgrade experience.
Hopefully you will find these articles helpful in planning any upgrades to V6R1.