Re: Migration from z/OS 1.4 to ???

2007-11-16 Thread Mike Myers
Ted: Thanks for the reply. On some IBM websites, when you investigate the migration options, and you are looking at something outside the supported V1R4 to V1R7 path, you get contact your IBM representative. Well, although I was a 20-year IBMer, I am inclined to ask the people who support

Migration from z/OS 1.4 to ???

2007-11-15 Thread Mike Myers
Hi: I working with an account, where, believe it or not, they are currently running z/OS V1.R4 in a basic sysplex. The first order of business is to get them migrated to a supported level of z/OS, which is minimally V1R7. Since V1R7 goes off support in September of next year (and they

Re: Migration from z/OS 1.4 to ???

2007-11-15 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Does anyone out there know of a reasonable way of successfully bypassing V1R7 and migrating to V1R8, when coming from V1R4? There isn't one, unfortunately. IBM only promises compatibility for N, N+1, N+2, N+3. Where N is 1.4 and N+3 is 1.7. There are control blocks, catalogues and other things