thank you for the replies I am coming from 1.6. I thought about 1.10 and then thought what the heck go to the latest and greatest one cant be much different than the other.Mark I will go over the presentation thanks Larry
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Eric Bielefeld <eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com>wrote: > I suspect if you are far enough back, the only really safe way to convert > to 1.11 is to do either an FDR or DFDSS backup of everything, just before > the initial IPL of 1.11. Going forward is never an issue, its coming back > that can be a problem. By doing backups of everything, you can restore > everything, and should be ok. That obviously will take a lot of time. > Hopefully, you will never have to go back, and the longer you are up on the > new system, the harder it is to go back. Also, the more processing that has > to be rerun. > > I also wondered, like Mark, what release you are coming from. > > Eric Bielefeld > Sr. Systems Programmer > Milwaukee, Wisconsin > 414-475-7434 > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Zelden" <mark.zel...@zurichna.com > > > >> >> 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. >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
