ah, again with the FUD. There is no issue with sharing catalogs, or RACF between OS/390 and z/OS at any level, you just can't do stupid things. There are some incompatibilities with some products, but mostly it's a matter of two inconsistent versions of products that you can handle up front before the actual conversion. I never said it was a nit, but it's not impossible nor is it particularly difficult, you just have to know what you're doing. I've done it too many times at too many sites and I have not run into any insurmountable issues with being outside of the N-3 "rules". It's not like IBM is going to say, "Wow!, you're trying to convert from OS/390 2.10 to Z/OS 1.8, we don't support that!, You'll just have to go away.", because they do provide support, they have been from time to time very helpful. I will admit that I have not had to call them very much lately due to issues because I've already run into most, if not all, of them and have the solutions.
I even had two conversion client contacts in 2006 passed on to me from IBM support, and those conversions went fine with no hitches. Doing the conversion in multiple steps is just make-work that the client should not have to pay for and that I don't want to have to go through either. I guess if I was really bored, I might have a different perspective, but there are too many other interesting things to do without making extra work for myself or the client. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
