JAVA should be in a separate zFS mounted on a directory in the root.
Jon L. Veilleux [email protected] (860) 636-2683 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Fuchs Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS 1.9 installation ROOT ETC and VAR What about the other 'stuff' that is in the root I.E. JAVA 1.3? If I start with a new root I will loose that. Jerry Mark Zelden <[email protected]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 03/11/2009 01:23 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: z/OS 1.9 installation ROOT ETC and VAR On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:04:41 -0400, Jerry Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote: >I am on z/OS 1.7 installing z/OS 1.9. I created a new ROOT file by copying >my existing production ROOT file. <snip> Eh? You should be restoring a new root file as part of ServerPac, not copying your existing one. The HLQ is your SSA and it will get mounted at the service directory you specified in your variables prior to running installation jobs. Of course that mount point needs to exist or be created. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
