On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:40:28 -0400, larry macioce <mace1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I know several of you on here have migrated from unsupported levels of one >z/OS to a supported level, but in reading the planning guide I see: >If you are migrating to z/OS V1R11 from z/OS V1R8 or earlier, you are >migrating >from a release that is no longer supported for migration. Contact your IBM >representative to find out what alternatives are available > >I know this is IBM talk for pay us and we will do it, but I'd really like to >try it myself. >We are a vanilla shop so there are not real gotcha here, we are a monoplex >and we do run quite a bite of 3rd party software, which will be upgraded >first. > >Tell me if I am wrong, but my BIG concern are the catalogs, if they get >buggered up then I am in trouble. What I am thinking about doing is create a >second set of catalogs, with nothing updating them, >and connecting those to test with. If that works then disconnect those and >connect the real catalogs. > >From the way it looks I don't think I can order any toleration ptfs or >coexistence ptfs as again we are unsupported. I have just begun to read the >planning guide but am put off by the above statement. > >The reason I am at an unsupported level is a management goof up with IBM >that took several years to reconcile and so here I am. > >I know I am missing a ton, so please point me specific directions with what >I need. I will be doing this by myself as the only other person here is a vm >guy so all help is appreciated. >thanks >Larry > I'm sure you can search the archives for past posts about this. You won't be the first nor last to do it. Tom Conley gave a nice presentation recently at SHARE in Denver: Successful Unsupported z/OS Upgrade Paths for Trailing Edge Shops http://ew.share.org/proceedingmod/abstract.cfm?abstract_id=19841 What version are you coming from? Old or ancient? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html What level are you coming from pray tell? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
