On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:16:18 -0500, Brian Westerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I feel like a broken record on this topic every few months. Try to remember >that just because IBM doesn't consider it "supported" does not have the same >meaning as "won't work", because it will work fine. There are several beta >sites including a vendor site which I am intimate with which have no >problems with that update in both coexistence and conversion. It's not >really going to be a big issue for you, sysplex or not, so long as you are >careful, things will work out just fine. > Coexistence? Are they running a z/OS 1.7 and z/OS 1.10 JES2 in the same MAS (I thought IBM hard coded release checks these days for JES2)? Are they running a parallel sysplex? How "blue" are their software portfolios? Vendor / small shop is one thing. I wouldn't want to do it in a large(r) shop using sysplex running critical apps even if I could. I'd rather run unsupported releases within the documented supported coexistence levels. When I consulted full time, I also did migrations outside of the coexistence / fallback levels for monoplex environments, but have never recommended to do it for any environments that were in a basic or parallel sysplex. If there was a problem after doing so, I wouldn't want that liability. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS 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
