Correct. AFAIK there are no issues with bringing a SFS server down under z/VM 4.n, then bringing it back up on a level of z/VM 5.n ... and then going back if for some reason you had to.
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 03:05 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Version 4 to Version 5 > > 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 > >> > >************************************************************* > ***********
