Hello David, Alan, and others,
The overall problem is getting from z/4.3 on the MP3000 to
At Z/800/890/900/990 with out any user interruption.
Ok I have 20 minutes at midnight.
I am thinking do z/VM 4.3 to z/VM 4.4 upgrade. Now I should be
able to run on whatever box they throw at me.
I am using SFS right now for all the UltraQuest/Nomad2 (4gl)
stuff.
I am thinking easy move of that stuff.
Then on to z/VM 5.x.
Oh, just because, it looks like I have a DASD (EMC Symmetrix)
upgrade too.
Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-588-4723
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ext. 40441
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
>> Behalf Of David Boyes
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:03 PM
>> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
>> Subject: Re: mp3000
>>
>> > We are on z/VM 4.3 and was wondering if anyone has run z/VM 4.3
>> > on
>> > any of these boxes (unsupported of course).
>>
>> It certainly runs fine on the MP3000. I've successfully run 4.3 on a
>> z890, so it probably will work OK (assuming you don't get a multibook
>> 990 or something that 4.3 doesn't know how to handle). You will need
>> some PTFs if you add new device types, but if this is just a
processor
>> box swap, you ought to be OK.
>>
>> Another option nobody mentioned would be to install 5.1 on the metal,
>> create a guest id and dedicate all the 4.3 disks to it, and run the
4.3
>> system as a guest of a 5.1 system, which would be a little better
>> supported (at least the parts that deal with the real hardware would
be
>> supported). That would also require the least change to the
environment
>> -- you could keep running the 4.3 system and just migrate users down
to
>> 5.1 as you do testing. 5.1 to 5.2 is a much smaller jump than 4.x to
>> 5.x.
>>
>> You could migrate to SFS as part of the 4.x -> 5.x migration and then
>> the next upgrade is LOTS easier...
>>
>> -- db
