Thank you to Brian and others. I am OOO next week. We are actually pretty current on EntireX. I thought I knew all SAG products, but ASM isn't one I remember.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Brian Westerman > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2019 10:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OS 2.1 to 2.4 [EXTERNAL] > > Yes, you need to have current maintenance on your old 2.1 system, but your > ability to fall back based on what you have stated in your response makes it > so that your fallback (if necessary) will not be an issue for you. Depending > on > your product mix, I think that SAG might have a simple work around for you > for allowusekeycsa(yes), and so long as you are using the Version 8 SVC > (which still supports version 7 Adabas products like cluster services and > parallel services) you will be okay for all but a small number of products. > There are some products that you will have to update but they are likely > minor in your case (older EntireX Brokers), at least they should be because > very little depends on the actual release of the broker. There are some > special PPT entries you have to perform as well that depend on your > products, but there is an SAG page that tell you all of them. > > The only problem you will hit is with Natural, which needs to be at 4.2.4 to > not need the allowuserkeycsa(yes), this will require SAG's ASM to do this, > but I think it's free. > > I have performed several upgrades to old levels of Adabas (back to version > 7.1) for just the Natural component, and they are truly dead simple, and if > done correctly won't require you to recatalog everything in the natural > libraries either (at least not manually depending on how far back you are). > Plus, again with proper planning, you have a fallback that you can implement > within a few minutes. Remember if you upgrade Natural, you still have to > install ASM. The suggested solution SAG is to install ASM Authorized Services > Manager with all versions of Natural that use the older buffer pools and want > to convert to allowuserkeycsa(no). > > Brian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
