If you plan to use a console after the
data migration, ensure that the target console is prepared for your
environment.
Perform these general tasks related to your console:
- Choose a console that is supported by both the source and
target systems.
Know your current strategy
for connecting a console to your system or logical partition. Your
current connection strategy influences your planning activities. For
more information about consoles, see the Managing IBM® i consoles topic in the IBM Power
Systems Hardware Information Center.
Attention: An Operations Console directly attached to the system is not
supported in IBM i 7.3. If you currently
have an Operations Console directly attached to the system, you must change the console before you
start to install or upgrade the IBM i software on your
system. Failure to do so will cause the installation to fail with unpredictable results. For more
information about changing consoles, see the Changing consoles topic in the IBM
Power Systems Hardware Information Center.
- Ensure that the target console is set up for your environment
and is operational.
The target console
must be operational and tested as a stand-alone server before the
data migration.