HI Barbara, Interesting you just happened upon finding the z/OS upgrade material on the z/OS website :). I think we need to make it easier to find, as perhaps the System Level portion of the z/OS release bookshelf isn't the best place?
You mentioned, "I wasn't too happy with it because it doesn't work offline, you have to read it online and don't really have a chance to edit or mark anything as complete or irrelevant for your installation." On the Abstract page for it, we've tried to describe that there are two formats for the material. The preferred one, would be the native z/OSMF Workflow format which allows you to skip unnecessary steps, run any associated health checks, mark as complete, mark any notes you want in it, assign it to others (if you can't do it yourself). Even if you don't choose to perform the workflow from z/OSMF, after you initially create it there, you can still export it into your own personal HTML and then PDF, if you wish. You can even run only the first step on the Workflow so that irrelevant steps can be quickly skipped - and therefore not exported. I'm not sure how you might have edited the old z/OS Migration book, but it looks a lot like that old book when exported. You could use that HTML (or your PDF of it) offline. So, I think you can get what you want back, if that is all you needed. And you can get it more tailored than you had before. The other format is an export that IBM did ourselves, and put on the IBM Documentation site. I think this is the one that you encountered. It is all the material that is found in the z/OSMF Upgrade Workflow, just available with the rest of the z/OS books so you could reference it outside of z/OSMF. Since it hasn't been tailored to your system, and all the steps are listed, whether or not they are irrelevant to you, you'll find it rather long and probably not as helpful as if you would have created your own customized file, or even done it from with z/OSMF itself. I agree, it's not the best, which is why it isn't the preferred option. -Marna WALLE z/OS System Installation and Upgrade IBM Poughkeepsie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
