Upgrade from Z/OS 1/4 to Z/OS 1.7 or Z/OS 1.8 ?

2006-09-13 Thread Meganen Naidoo - BCX - Data Centre Services
Hi All, We are currently running Z/OS 1.4 on all our lpars. We now want to upgrade to a newer release of the operating system. Z/OS 1.8 will be available at the end of this month. Are there any issues with going straight from Z/OS 1.4 to Z/OS 1.8. ??? Kind Regards, Meganen

IBM Software and Outsourcing

2006-06-14 Thread Meganen Naidoo - BCX - Data Centre Services
Hi, We are an outsourcing shop with multiple clients running on ZOS 1.4 on 23 Lpars across two Z990 processors. Our current ZOS rollout method is to order one base ZOS system (Serverpac) containing all clients IBM Products. We then clone this base system to all client Lpars and limit product us

3592-E05 Jaguar Drives on ZOS1.4

2006-04-04 Thread Meganen Naidoo - BCX - Data Centre Services
Hi All, We have recently purchased an ATL3584 with 3592-E05 drives and have installed all relevant '3592DEVICE' put-bucket fixes - quite a few. The Robot comes online but when we vary the devices online we get the following message: V 300,ONLINE

Z9-109 - Processor Selection

2006-03-15 Thread Meganen Naidoo - BCX - Data Centre Services
Hi, Please could you give me your thoughts on the following :- * Currently, at each of our two 'high-availability' sites, we have an IBM Z990-303 and an IBM Z890 (one a 450 and the other a 240). * In July this year we are moving the whole data centre to our own premises (the buildin

ZOS/E on a Z890

2005-10-18 Thread Meganen Naidoo - BCX - Data Centre Services
Hi All, We have just purchased a Z890 2086-450. We are trying to run a Z/OS.e 1.4 Lpar on the Z890 and get msg IFA200W with a wait state 07B rc 17. Our Lpar name is ZOSEMNT1 and we are using the LICENSE=Z/OSE parameter in ieasys00. The message reads as follows: LICENSE=z/OSe was specified, but

ShopZseries

2005-08-25 Thread Meganen Naidoo - BCX - Data Centre Services
Hi All, I registered on ShopZseries 7 working days ago. Received an email saying that I will only be allowed to do draft orders until my access level is changed in approx. 48 hours. I still cannot submit any orders after 7 working days - comes up with 'you are not authorized to submit orders'.

Centralised ZOS console.

2005-08-01 Thread Meganen Naidoo - BCX - Data Centre Services
Hi all, We are an outsource company and run 23 lpars on 3 Zseries machines. To assist with operations we would like to have one central console highlighting specific messages from all the lpars. How would one achieve this?. Kind Regards, Meganen Naidoo Technical Architect: Data Centre Services