Need to learn AS400 where is best to start?

[999Dom999]

I have a brand new iseries i520 which has been an upgrade from our old 9406-720. I want to take the opportunity to learn a bit before the old 720 hits the scrap heap.(support is outsourced and we have one operator)

Ideally I would like to upgrade this old machine to V5R3 and install domino on it. Being a windows man doing the windows version of this for me is a doddle but I have almost no experience of AS400's operating systems.

I know domino pretty well on windows and the server it runs is not powerful enough. I would like to learn how to migrate it to our new iseries, the costs involved in getting someone in is so much that I could buy a new powerful windows server for half the price.

Is this sort of work highly skilled? Will I need full classroom training to pick this up or are there step by step tutorials or a decent book to learn from? I have tried to search for documents not really found much.

 

[jmd0252]

Have you checked on the IBM Iseries web site? Also,, look for IBM "Redbooks". Look at Websites specializing in "mid-range" computing, as this has been an Iseries "buzz-word", for a long time. The skills are different. Running Domino on the Iseries, is very stable,, but you will find a difference in terms, and principals. But you have an opportunity to play, and lean on the old machine, before it gets out the door..

 

[MdnghtPgmr]

999Dom999,

This is a good place to start.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?lang=en

HTH,
MdnghtPgmr

 

[999Dom999]

Thanks for the posts very helpful. Its all a bit alien to me.

Mind you coming from exchange and going to domino seemed the same, its just very different from what I've used before!

 

[nlsandro]

The 720 can only be upgraded to V5R2, no further.
The database could be migrated using SQL and connecting
through ODBC.