On Fri, 4 May 2007 02:40:13 -0400, Pinnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Brian Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main >Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:02 AM >Subject: Re: Finally get to go from os390 2.10 to zOS 1.8 > > >> >> The only time that I would ever advise two steps is when you have not yet >> moved your OS/390 system to a z-series hardware box. And in that case >> it's >> really just a small-step before the big-step where you need to put the >> z-series maintanence on the OS/390 system to support the z-series >> hardware. >> There is actually very little testing involved and the end users are >> normally not inconvenienced in any way. >> > >Huh? IBM says flat out that OS/390 cannot run on a z9 at all. Otherwise my >client would have done that instead of installing a z9 with z/OS V1R8 in >parallel and then cutting over in August (which I'm working on right now, by >the way). My client brought in Mainline and IBM so that the new system >would be "certified". > He said zSeries, not System z. z800 and 900 are included in that. But The 2 steps for me would have nothing to do with testing maintenance - it would be to jump from 31-bit to 64-bit under an operating system that had an option to fall back to 31-bit in case there were problems. 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
