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Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

  • 1.  Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Tue March 14, 2023 09:55 AM

    Why would customer online services work on OS V7R4 and not V7R5. Online services worked all the way from V7R1 thru V7R4 but not on V7R5. Any answer for this? Will await your replies.

    Regards,



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    Roy Bruce
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  • 2.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Tue March 14, 2023 07:51 PM

    Dear Roy

    You need to supply some contextual information of the issue.  For example, at the time when the online service did not work, do you see any error message(s) in the relevant job log, or in QSYSOPR message queue, or from DSPLOG command?   What exactly in the online services did not work? A description of the symptom would be useful.   What about background information of the services themselves?

     



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    Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think. -- Albert Einstein.
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    Satid S.
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  • 3.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Wed April 19, 2023 02:32 PM

    Not being able to send packages of data back to third party vendor. Could this be TCP related?



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    Roy Bruce
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  • 4.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Wed April 19, 2023 04:07 PM

    How are you sending them back?  FTP?  SFTP?  Call to REST API services?
    Start simple.  Try to PING the remote location.  If you can PING them that's a start.  If you cannot, could you ping them before?  Some people block pings as a security threat.  I don't see the issue, after all nra.org doesn't block pings and if that was a simple way to destroy a site I'm sure there's a few people who would have tried.



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
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  • 5.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Wed April 19, 2023 08:41 PM
    Edited by Satid Singkorapoom Wed April 19, 2023 08:46 PM

    Dear Roy

    Please provide more decriptive information about this "package" and "how" it is sent to the vendor - a step by step description would be informative for us.  For example, do you use an IBM i save file into which you save the package's content and send the save file to the vendor after downloading the save file to your PC with FTP (since you asked about TCP) and the vendor informs that they cannot restore the content from the save file?  If so, you need to be aware that a save file can be FTP out of and into IBM i BUT it MUST be in BINARY mode only (which happens NOT to be the default mode for an FTP session and you need to explicitly specify this mode in the FTP session before doing PUT or GET) to preserve the content of the save file.

    If the problem happens within your application environment (as opposed to IBM i environment - e.g. command line), then looking into the job log may provide you with useful clue of the issue. 

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    Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think. -- Albert Einstein.
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    Satid S.
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  • 6.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Thu April 20, 2023 02:01 AM

    On the subject of savefiles, please remember to specify the TGTRLS parameter on the SAVLIB/SAVOBJ command, if you want the savefile to be readable on a prior IBM i release.

    As of IBM i 7.5, the parameter allows these options:

    Target release . . . . . . . . .   *CURRENT
                                               
      *CURRENT                                 
      *PRV                                     
      V7R3M0                                   
      V7R4M0                                   
      V7R5M0                                   


    So if the receiver of the savefile has IBM i 7.3, the save command MUST have this parameter: TGTRLS(V7R3M0).

    Best regards,
    Christian



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    Christian Jorgensen
    IT System Administrator
    Network of Music Partners A/S
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  • 7.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Fri March 29, 2024 12:50 PM

    if i have a v7r5 system and a v7r1 system there is no way to save objects on v7r4 and restore them to v7r1?

    thanks



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    vick kelley
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  • 8.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Fri March 29, 2024 08:59 PM

    Dear Vick

    The answer is no for IBM i save/restore mechanism. But if the objects involved here are physical files or source physical files, you can export them into text stream files of a common format (such as CSV) using CPYTOIMPF or IBM i ACS File Transfer and import them into V7R1 system.   If there are very many files, CPYTOIMPF and CPYFRMIMPF may be a better way as you can write a CL program to help with the process.



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    Satid S
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  • 9.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Mon April 17, 2023 09:41 PM

    Hi Roy

    As Satid as stated, please provide more detail.  I have client considering migration from v7r3 to v7r5 and would to like to know of any possible issues.

    Michael W.



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    Michael Woodard
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  • 10.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Tue April 18, 2023 02:08 AM

    Dear Michael

    >>>> I have client considering migration from v7r3 to v7r5 and would to like to know of any possible issues. <<<<

    One resource I would turn to for such a question is IBM i Memo to Users, in your case for release 7.4 and 7.5 at  https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/memo-users-document-has-been-updated.     Scan through them and focus on what are changed or removed. 



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    Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think. -- Albert Einstein.
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    Satid S.
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  • 11.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Wed April 19, 2023 02:19 AM

    Hi Michael, 

    As we wait for Roy to provide more specific information about the issue he is facing. I would like to share a few resources you can monitor for any possible issues reported during or after the upgrade, while you plan for upgrade of V7R3 to V7R5: 

    1. IBM Support page where you can search for IBM i related support cases, I did a search with keyword " issue after IBM i OS upgrade" and got some interesting hits. :)  

    IBM Support

    2. IBM i APAR Database, just a quick glance through latest ones to see if there is something specific to IBM i OS upgrades would be good.

    APAR Data Base (ibm.com)

    Hope this helps.  



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    Prashant Sharma
    IBM Power Systems Solution Architect
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  • 12.  RE: Are There Any Known Issues With Communications On the OS V7R5

    Posted Wed April 19, 2023 08:01 AM

    What is not working?
    Are you serving up a website and it is no longer accessible?
    Are you serving up REST calls and they are no longer accessible?
    Is the machine not serving up pings internally as well as externally?
    Are you wondering why there are no lights on the front panel of your box?
    There are diagnostic tools we can suggest like
    checking NETSTAT *CNN and drilling down into the jobs
    checking NETSTAT *IFC and seeing that is communicating.
    checking pings
    checking joblogs to see if a formerly good sql statement is now treated differently (for example: comparing blanks to numeric, boolean support now returning 'FALSE' or 'TRUE' instead of '0' or '1')
    checking supported SSL levels
    checking to see if it is plugged in
    Reading the MTU as suggested to see if something there clicks
    but we'll need a little more information.



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
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