Yes, no problem with SFS, and surely not these day where not too many new things happen to SFS. Even in the past, when SFS detected it used a newer level, it automatically updated its catalog with new "fields", no user intervention required.
2009/3/16 Shimon Lebowitz <shim...@iname.com>: > You got me! > > So... I can assume that if I start up after an orderly > shutdown, the V5 servers will work right away, with the V4 > data, right? > > > ---- Original message ---- >>Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:07:33 -0400 >>From: "Imler, Steven J" <steven.im...@ca.com> >>Subject: Re: Version 4 to Version 5 >>To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU >> >>Shimon, >> >>Was your SFS server up and running when you DDR'd it? If > so, it's >>likely some data changed while your DDR was running causing > you to end >>up with a "dirty" copy of the FilePool. >> >> >>JR (Steven) Imler >>CA >>Senior Sustaining Engineer >>Tel: +1 703 708 3479 >>steven.im...@ca.com >> >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] >>On >>> Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz >>> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 02:36 AM >>> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU >>> Subject: Version 4 to Version 5 >>> >>> In changing a z/VM system from Version 4 to Version 5: >>> >>> 1) is there any problem with the V5 system using the > existing >>> spool files of V4? >>> >>> 2) Can SFS servers that were running V4 simply be started > up >>> with the SFS servers of V5 on the same mdisks? >>> >>> I tried one SFS server and it failed to come up until I ran >>> a FILESERV BACKUP. Was this some local problem, or >>> did I do something wrong? Of course I did not use live >>> data - I DDR'd all of the mdisks of the server to copies, >>> and tried to run the new server on them. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Shimon >>> >>> -- >>> >>************************************************************* > *********** >>> Shimon Lebowitz mailto:shim...@iname.com >>> VM System Programmer . >>> Israel Police National HQ. >>> Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972 2 542-9877 > fax: 542-9308 >>> >>************************************************************* > *********** > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
