On 08/05/2010 08:27 PM, Shane wrote: > I would have thought DB2 might be a more pressing issue for a business. > > Shane ... > > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 23:42 +0300, Mike Shorkend wrote: > >> z/os 1.9 is going out of service in September IIRC. We have to migrate to >> z/os 1.11 before then. >> The LPAR has 4.5 GB >> DB2 V8 >
z/OS 1.9 EoS is 2010-09, and in our experience it takes a minimum of 4 months to adequately check out all the major subsystems and vendor products under a new z/OS version before a move to production even in a single-production-LPAR environment. I once did it in less by working 60+ hour weeks for over a month when the new z/OS was a coreq for a firmly scheduled hardware upgrade, but I wouldn't recommend it. DB2 V8 EoS is 2012-04-30, light years away by comparison, and I've seen DB2 upgrades phased into production in less than 2 months. Unless there is some new DB2 feature essential to your shop, cost is often a significant motivator for staying with older versions as long as they are still supported. -- Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR jcew...@acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
