I am hoping for some 'guidance' from the experience on this site. I am working at one of those 'small shops' that have been discussed on here recently. In or around 2000, installed 7060-H70 (2 cps, 2 GB storage). When I started here (the first time) had just finished upgrade to OS/390 V2.9. I upgrade within 18 months to V2.10. Then CIO decided we were moving everything to SAP. Mainframe would be dead within 5 years (that would have been around 2007). Short term plans were to upgrade OS to z/OS V1.4 and ride the box into the sunset. Now it is 2010, SAP says that the number 1 application on mainframe will still be on mainframe for at least 5 more years, maybe forever. So we are installing a new 2098 BC (K02, 2 cps, 8 GB memory) and z/OS V1.11. New mainframe, new OS, and it will all be installed on new DASD.
After reading a thread from May and June of 2007 (started I believe by John Matson), can I use the V1.4 OS to drive the install of the V1.11 OS on the new machine? I did see in the thread issues with the USS space, but I have had USS issues before. This is about as vanilla a shop as you can find. CICS, no IMS, no DB2, we are using MQSeries and a very tiny bit of Java in USS. I am going to order the customized offerings driver in case, but it sure seems like it would be a lot easier if I could use my existing Test LPAR to drive the install. Once again, I will not be sharing anything, catalogs, JES Spool, anything. Thoughts? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
