So a few things happened here.

First I had the issue with the Discovery failing stating it could not talk to 
my ACWB 2.1 lpar from my driving ACWA 2.3 lpar.

After looking at all the manuals I could not figure out the reason for the 
failure, given my understandings in my first email.

This lead me to start over. So yes I had a fully populated IZUPRMxx member 
however when I attempted to start my z/osmf it kept giving me an error about 
the /var/zosmf/data/home/izusvr directory not found. This was after I moved it 
to /global/zosmf/data/home/izusvr

So yes I ran the izuconfig.SH member.  This did 2 things.  It verified that all 
my variables and parms where correct so something else was wrong.

Next I found the APAR/PTF that actually moved the montpoint for /global/zosmf, 
however the ALU for user IZUSVR was not run plus I could not find it documented 
in the z/OSMF config manual to change from /var/zosmf......   to 
/global/zosmf/........ It was only in the holddata.

After I did that everything started correctly.  So your correct it was not 
izusetup.sh and I didn’t need to run anything.

So that was my missing piece.  Now everything is working as designed.

Now for my comment about the whole process........
Using z/OSMF for the migration is a horrible.

First its formatted on a screen and with all the header information in z/OSMF 
you only seeing a screen that’s severely reduced in size.
Then when you click to expand you have to jump tabs to details, notes, ETC to 
see the data, where as the manual was very easy to digest and put together a 
sheet with upgrade tasks.

Unless I am missing something new in z/OSMF to make this fullscreen its very 
cumbersome and tedious.

I am glad I found the exploded version that I used first because that was 
fullscreen and very easy to use.  I still would prefer the manual but this is a 
valid work around.

I don’t see z/OSMF as anything usable, but that’s just my opinion after doing 
this for 35 years and tons of upgrades.


Ms Terri E Shaffer
Senior Systems Engineer,
z/OS Support:
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Hi Terri,
You re-ran IZUSETUP, not recently right?  That was made obsolete way back on 
z/OS V2.1 with APAR PI54286 (2016), to move to the "modern" parmlib (IZUPRMxx) 
method.  I hope you still aren't using that, and don't have the server running 
on your z/OS V2.1 system but rather on a higher system in your sysplex.

You are running your server on your V2.3 system, correct?

Thanks,
Marna WALLE
z/OS System Install and Upgrade, IBM Poughkeepsie

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