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From: "Steve Dover" <steve.do...@ccbcc.com>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 9:10 AM
Subject: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11
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?
Steve,
Check out my web site below for my SHARE presentation on unsupported upgrade
paths. I've done an OS/390 V2R10 to z/OS V1R8 upgrade. Let me know if you
have any questions or concerns.
Regards,
Thomas Conley, President/CEO
Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc.
59 Applewood Drive
Rochester, NY 14612-3501
P: (585)720-0012
F: (585)723-3713
http://home.roadrunner.com/~pinncons/
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