On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:39:09 -0500, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
>We just got the z/OS 1.13 downloaded and beginning looking through the >dialogs. In the past this site had been quite a ways behind in upgrades, so >it was sort of done from scratch each time. This time around we be migrating >from 1.11 to 1.13 (supported!) > >Has anyone else considered what's the easisest way to create a new sysres that >we can begin testing 1.13 on our test sytems? I don't want the Full system >replacement and all the work of creating all new running datasets. Software >upgrade sounds like it is going to want to reach out and update my existing >running datasets, I don't really want that either - I can read the migration >manual. I'd like a 3rd option - Create the SYSRES and DLB volume and leave it >at that. Can a guy selectively skip some of the installation jobs if they are >deemed not needed? Seems like the whole installation dialog is much more >complicated that need be. If IBM could just provide a full volume backup of >the sysres and dlib volumes, over time would nudge people to tailor the >installations less and run a more vanilla installation. > >Dana > Hi Dana! How's it been going? I am going through a v11-> v13 upgrade myself. Over the years I've gotten a little more accustomed to using the Serverpac dialogs and have gotten somewhat of a procedure down. I'm no expert by any means but might be able to help in some ways. Being I do the release skip I have to retrain myself each time it seems. :) Let me know if the responses given were enough information for you. Hope things are going well for you, Pat Lyon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
