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StuartR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I hope you can give some ideas as if or how to solve the
following
issue.
You may guess that it relates to migrating from an "old"
server with
no external tape and no external disk to a new z9 +
external DS6000
disk -
There are no tape units installed.
There is no z/VM system in the old environment.
We wish to migrate the z/OS systems and data currently in
use to the
new envrionment.
For simplicity sake imagine it is a one pack z/OS system
we need to
move - once we can ipl this we are in business to do more.
How might you do this, our options thinking went like ....
1. Use new z/OS starter system - as above not possible
since no
external tape to restore it from
2. Connect new server to the existing disk or old server
to the new
disk systems - not possible, the old system has only
internal disk and
the new disk is FICON and cannot
be connected to the old processor.
So this leaves us with
3. Somehow "dump" an old system and FTP it across to the
new system
having loaded z/VM via the z9 HMC using DVD's to the new
systems disk
and thus having a z/VM and CMS environment - z/VM is
available on
DVD's.
This is where the questions arise and looking for some
help or ideas
as to how to make this work or if not possible.
We see the steps as
GET A RESTORE PGM
We believe we can build a SA DFDSS pgm in card image form
(BUILDSA) on
the old system and FTP this across to a CMS user.
This user should be able to receive this card image as a
CMS file and
"punch" it to the virtual reader.
We could then "IPL" from the reader on this z/VM virtual
machine
- this then creates a SA DFDSS environment
GET THE DUMPED DFDSS "one pack system" data
the trick now, and where we are struggling it how to send
across the
DSFSS dump of the one pack environment.
Clearly on the old system we can create a sequential DFDSS
dump image
but held on disk.
We then need to FTP this sequential image and use it as
input to the
SA DFDSS system Ipl'ed.
SO ... ANY CLUES ON
- HOW TO SPECIFY THE FTP OPTIONS at each end to make sure
both ends
correctly see this sequential stream in a format DFDSS can
subsequently use.
(we assume it will be held as in interim CMS file)
- HOW WE specify the input to the SA DFDSS environment we
have just
ipl'ed so it can process this data
We feel we need some views as to whether this is a non
starter as a
process OR if posible please
details of the process and commands that should be used to
achieve
this
Hopefully someone has done this who could assist or knows
if this is
just not possible.
TIA.
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As to solutions, have you considered copying the disk
volume (or the DF/DSS dump of it) to DVD and
snearkernetting it to the new machine?
Also, you mention that the old server "has only
internal disk". If you can accept the downtime, you can
probably open the old server and either temporarily install
a new disk to copy to, or take the old disk out and
temporarily install it in the new server.
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