Re: z/VM 5.4 VSAM question - PJBR

[Jim Bohnsack]

With all due respect to Kris, I generally prefer to use SPXTAPE to dump and load the DCSS's.  DCSSBKUP does not preserve the original date of the DCSS, which I think is very valuable.  SPXTAPE DUMP and LOAD does.  Just my preference. Jim Kris Buelens wrote: You can reinstall the old VSAM tape if you still have ity and can read it. Or, the way I'd work: - use DCSSBKUP to store CMSVSAM and CMSAMS saved segments in a CMS file - use Q NSS CMSxxxx MAP to have the stage defintions - on 5.4 issue DEFSEG CMSxxxx to create the skeletons usin,g the addresses found above - copy these files to the 5.4 system and use DCSSRSAV to create new saved segments When these segments are in a segment SPACE, the DEFSEG commands are a bit complex, surely if CMSDOS and CMSBAM are included in that SPACE, you'd have to use the SAMERANGE parameter to copy the new CMSBAM and CMSDOS into the space. Here's my layout: FILE FILENAME FILETYPE MINSIZE BEGPAG ENDPAG TYPE 1611 DOSBAM DCSS-S N/A 00900 00AFF -- 1612 CMSBAM DCSS-M N/A 0090D 00937 SR 1610 CMSDOS DCSS-M N/A 00900 0090C SR 1604 CMSVSAM DCSS-M N/A 00994 009FF SR 00A00 00A80 ER 00AF0 00AFF EW 1607 CMSAMS DCSS-M N/A 00938 00993 SR 00AC0 00AEF EW That would be sufficient. You would not be able to apply fixes (but there are no more), nor to change the the address of the CMSVSAM or CMSAMS segments. You could also copy the minidisks/SFS dirs of the VSAM install user, and all "5686081A *" found on MAINT 51D (e.g. the PPF) into the 5.4 system, and you'd have everything and you can rebuild the saved segments using VMSES "following the book". No tape required. 2009/5/20 jose raul baron <jba...@calculo-sa.es> Hi, list. We are currently considering to migrate from z/VM 4.4 to z/VM 5.4 but we have an issue: We still have critical applications that use VSE/VSAM 6.1 and the questio= ns are: - Does VSAM still exist in z/VM 5.4 ? - Is it perhaps included in the z/VM 5.4 code (e.g. as TCPIP) ? - If not, is there any workaround way to keep on using our VSAM applicati= ons (e.g. installing the VSAM 6.1 tape we received with z/VM 4.4) ? Thanks in advance, Raul Bar=F3n Dpto. Sistemas CALCULO S.A. -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell jab...@cornell.edu