On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:56:07 -0600, Mark Steely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We are z/OS V1R4 and going to z/OS V1R7. Can the spool be shared between >the 2 systems? >We are upgrading this weekend and I usually unload the JES2 Queues and >reload the spool after the upgrade. >I thought I heard I did not need to do that. I could use the same >SPOOL's and switch back and forth if the need arises. > >Should I perform a backup. Would a full volume backup work or should I >use OFFLOAD option? > >Any help would be appreciated. > Since that is (was) a supported migration path, the answer is certainly yes. Of course you need to make sure you have all the coexistence maintenance applied to your z/OS 1.4 system(s). All of this is covered in the planning manuals: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/E0Z2BK61 Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
