It's ancient history now (about 18 months ago) but we upgraded from a 7060 to a z9 running z/OS 1.4. As others have stated, it was merely getting the exploitation feature and installing it. The upgrade went smoothly and I don't recall any issues. We're still running the 1.4 code and still have no issues, although a caveat is that we're running a pretty vanilla machine.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray M. Robinson Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 3:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS 1.4 upgrade to allow operation on a z9. Some days ago I noticed a request as to how difficult the move from a z900 to a z9 with the now unsupported release of z/OS 1.4. It looked like you just had to apply the appropriate compatibility PTFs and PSP buckets. However, I either did not see or missed if this was done using the ORDERABLE comparability functions while z/OS 1.4 was still supported. The only way now is to download the z990 Exploitation Support for z/OS V1.4 from the web. This has the compatibility functions bundled in with other exploitation changes (which I don't really need). Has anyone used this method to get there operating system ready for a new machine, and if so how bad was the maintenance process. We don't have to run the z/OS 1.4 image for long on the new machine but we have a push pull machine change so have to feel comfortable about image coming up. It is also part of an existing SYSPlex contained on the one machine ( the others being z/OS 1.7 so only PSP bucket fixes for them), don't know if that complicates matters or not. Thanks. This e-mail message and any attachments may contain confidential, proprietary or non-public information. This information is intended solely for the designated recipient(s). If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any review, dissemination, use or reliance upon this information by unintended recipients is prohibited. Any opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the author personally. Murray Robinson ACI Worldwide, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (402)-778-1930 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
