Lukas Beeler's IT Blog

This weekend i upgraded a System i Model 800 from OS/400 V5R2 to i5/OS V5R4. While doing all the preparation for installing i5/OS using Image Catalogs, the image catalog check failed with the following message:

VERIFICATION OF IMAGE CATALOG FAILED WITH REASON CODE 02. LOAD SOURSE TOO
SMALL FOR RELEASE V5R4M0. RELEASE V5R4M0 REQURIES A LARGER LOAD SOURCE.
TO DETERMINE THE MINIMUM LOAD SOURCE SIZE, REVIEW THE ISERIES
INFORMATION CENTER FOR RELEASE V5R4M0 FOR INFORMATION ABOUT ALLOCATING
ADDITIONAL LICENSED INTERNAL CODE (LIC) SPACE. SEE THE TOPIC ON PERFORM
INITIAL UPGRADE OR REPLACEMENT TASKS.

I only read the first part of the message, and rechecked the load source size. It was a 36GB Disk, and V5R4M0 requires a 17GB load source minimum. So that was okay. I reread the message, and now saw the part about allocating the additional space for the LIC. But i already did that, and IPLd the System – while doing so the SRC C6004250 appeared longer than usual. So i assumed it went fine.

I checked using the menus in GO LICPGM, 5, and then the LIC space allocation screen. I was told that the space was already extended. I reIPLd the system, but the problem persisted.

In the installation manual, there is an additional method available by manually calling a program that will then set the flags for LIC space extension.

CALL PGM(QLPALCSP) PARM('V5R4M0' '0')

I ran that, reIPLd the system. Again, C6004250 appeared longer than usual. After that, the image catalog verification ran without issues, and the release upgraded succeeded after some more hours.