IBM AIX5L - Manual

vi CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 Trademarks The following terms are trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both: AIX®AIX 5L™ BladeCenter™C Set ++® DB2®DFS™ ™ ^ ™ IntelliStation® IBM®Micro Channel®PowerPC 604™P...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. vii Preface This IBM Redpaper is a guide covering the migration of the AIX operating system from AIX Version 4.3 to AIX 5L in a CATIA or ENOVIA environment. This document was written to guide an AIX administrator through the steps of a migration to AI...

viii CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project: Karsten SchönbergBertrandt, Germany Christian SetzerCompuNet, Germany Ekkehard Blauth and Matthias HoffmannPorsche, Germany Rolf SimonVW Gedas, Germany Kenneth D. Fox ...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. 1 Chapter 1. Supported hardware This chapter provides a brief description of the supported pSeries hardware models for AIX and the hardware supported for CATIA and ENOVIA. To prevent a time-consuming analysis, all implemented workstation and server ha...

2 CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 1.1 Supported hardware for AIX 5L AIX 5L Version 5.1 runs on most IBM IntelliStation POWER series, IBM RS/6000, and IBM Sserver pSeries systems. These include the IntelliStation POWER 265 and 275; the pSeries 620, p640, p670, p680, p690; and ...

Chapter 1. Supported hardware 3 򐂰 Sserver pSeries 620 Models 6F0 or 6F1 򐂰 Sserver pSeries 630 Models 6C4 or 6E4 򐂰 Sserver pSeries 640 Model B80 򐂰 Sserver pSeries 650 Model 6M2 򐂰 Sserver pSeries 655 Model 651 򐂰 Sserver pSeries 660 Models 6H0, 6H1 or 6M1 򐂰 Sserver pSeries 670 򐂰 Sserver pSeries 680 Mod...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. 5 Chapter 2. Migration methods This chapter provides an introduction to migration and explains why customers should migrate to AIX 5L. The following different migration methods are described in detail: 򐂰 Migration installation 򐂰 New or complete overwr...

6 CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 2.1 Definition of migration The term migration is defined in the information technology field as the change of one operating environment for another. This can involve moving to new hardware, to new software, or both. In the way it is used in ...

Chapter 2. Migration methods 7 2.3.1 Migration installation Migration installation is the default method to move from AIX 3.2 or any release of AIX Version 4 to AIX 5L. During a migration, the installation process determines which optional software products are installed on the existing version of t...

8 CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 Following are some of the tasks you might perform, based on your specific environment, when selecting a new and complete installation. 򐂰 Set the system date and time for your time zone. 򐂰 Set a root user account password to restrict access to...

Chapter 2. Migration methods 9 2.4.1 AIX and compiler CDs Installation CDs are required for a migration, even if used as the base installation media or used to set up a Network Installation Management (NIM) server. All appropriate CDs are required, including the AIX 5L base operating, compiler, and ...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. 11 Chapter 3. Planning the migration This chapter documents the existing production environment to ensure a straightforward migration process of AIX Version 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1. Careful planning and detailed documentation will provide a successf...

12 CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 3.1 Shell scripts With AIX 5L, there are a few functional enhancements of ksh, the Korn shell. The default shell is still /usr/bin/ksh. It is hard linked to /usr/bin/psh, /usr/bin/sh, and /usr/bin/tsh. It is an implementation of the 1988 ver...

14 CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 3.4 IBM Sserver pSeries Customer-Managed Microcode The pSeries and RS/6000 Customer-Managed Microcode is a methodology that allows you to manage and install microcode updates on pSeries and RS/6000 systems, and associated I/O adapters. The M...

Chapter 3. Planning the migration 15 3.6 AIX and compiler runtime download Web sites In some cases you need to order or download general AIX PTFs. CATIA and ENOVIA also require specific FORTRAN and C++ Run Time Environment levels. These filesets are available for download from the Web, as shown in t...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. 17 Chapter 4. Starting the migration This chapter describes the environment used to perform and test the migration process using a straightforward method provided by Network Installation Management (NIM). Depending on the complexity and the size of th...

18 CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 4.1 Hardware layout To cover the most common installed hardware configurations used in several customer environments, the layout shown in Figure 4-1 was chosen to perform the migration tasks. The final hardware in customer implementation wil...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. 21 Chapter 5. Migration experiences In this chapter we provide the information received during the migration process executed on the CATIA clients and the NFS and NIS server. Though not all individual AIX configurations are covered, most of the instal...

22 CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 5.1 Post-migration tasks After the migration, you will need to perform several tasks. The list of tasks required depends on your actual environment. During the migration process, installation messages of the installp command are shown on the...

Chapter 5. Migration experiences 23 # (c) IBM Deutschland GmbH, Gregor Linzmeier and Volker Haug######################################################################## mount intelli275:/stuff /mntif [ $? != 0 ] then echo "Error mounting NFS filesystem from the NIM server" echo "Error mo...

24 CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 NIM server. During the migration the previous 4.3.3 documentation filesets are replaced by the ones for AIX 5L Version 5.1. But it might occur that you cannot start the documentation search engine or the documentation itself. To recover from...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. 25 Appendix A. Fileset and bundle information In this appendix we provide detailed information for system administrators to compare the listings of the fileset information used in the migration process. Additionaly, a new developed AIX 5L Version 5.1 ...

Appendix A. Fileset and bundle information 39 AIX 5L Version 5.1 Bundle To support system administrators, the following sample bundle file is provided to ensure that all nessesary filesets are installed to run CATIA and ENOVIA products. The contents of the bundle information are filesets that should...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. 43 Appendix B. Checklists This appendix provides system administrators with a checklist to prepare the nessesary environment. We used these lists to check the installation before and after a migration installation, but you can also use them to create ...

44 CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1 Client checklist Depending on your customer’s choice, a mix of migration methods and installation from scratch will be done. Espesically for a base installation, Table B-1 should be used to examine the current system settings and to ensure t...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. 47 AIX Advanced Interactive Execute APAR Authorized Program Analysis Report BOS Base Operating System CDE Common Desktop Environment CD-ROM Compact Disc - Read Only Memory CHRP Common Hardware Reference Platform CPU Central Processing Unit DNS Domain ...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. 49 Related publications The publications listed in this section are considered particularly suitable for a more detailed discussion of the topics covered in this Redpaper. IBM Redbooks For information on ordering these publications, see “How to get IB...

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