In my comment what I should have made clear was that on the older system everything is in sync with the older level and the newer system everything in in sync for the upgraded system.
If I didn't make that clear then I should have...sorry about that. --- On Wed, 9/9/09, Mark Zelden <mark.zel...@zurichna.com> wrote: > From: Mark Zelden <mark.zel...@zurichna.com> > Subject: Re: Startup of All STCs After IPL > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 9:42 AM > On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:30:35 -0400, > Robert A. Rosenberg <hal9...@panix.com> > wrote: > > > > > >My question is why waste the time/effort to go to from > v1.4 to v1.7 > >only to get one year of support when going to v1.8 > would seem to be > >the same time/effort and would result in a number of > years of > >support. It is not as if v1.8 was bleeding edge and > thus a larger > >risk than v1.7. > > > > This sort of thing has been discussed many times. I > have no idea what > the exact circumstances are here, but if you need > coexistence, you have > to stay within the supported coexistence levels. This > is not the same as > "jumping forward" or even (unsupported) fallback. I'm > talking about > running a mixed complex (shared spool, catalogs, dasd, > various control > data sets for HSM, RMM, etc.). If your > business is willing to make the > jump forward for all systems at the same time, then you can > do it. If > not, you have to stay within the supported coexistence > levels. And no, > the extended support for z/OS 1.7 and z/OS 1.8 does not > address this > issue. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden > Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead > Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS > G-ITO > mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com > z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu > with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
