Migration it self is not an issue. The problem is the disk space and cpu sized that are insufficient. So we plan for click and set an environment that might not exist in next IPL (even on same day).
*| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux and IBM I **| * *|* *Email**: [email protected] **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* בתאריך יום ו׳, 17 באוק׳ 2025 ב-20:18 מאת Charles Mills <[email protected]>: > I have migrated from one z/OS image to another several times completely > satisfactorily. > > - DFSMSDSS a group of data sets > - TERSE the output > - FTP to a small platform > - Reverse the process to go the other direction > > Works like a champ. I don't recall any issues once I got going. I have > PROCs and jobs to make it all easy. > > Charles > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:31:03 +0300, ITschak Mugzach <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >This is a subject that was discussed here several times. As we (must) > >prepare to discontinue our current mainframe (IBM stop licensing zPDT) and > >be able to port to a different mainframe, we developed a program to > >retrieve dataset allocation information and create the jcl to recreate it. > > > >The trick is to run ftp on the local host and using CD and DIR commands. > >The output is written to dataset allocated to OUTPUT dd. > > > >If you like, I can post the code. > > > >ITschak Mugzach > >*|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring > >for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM coming soon * > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
