Re: Person-Months for Version-to-Version Migrations?

2008-02-21 Thread Staller, Allan
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Person-Months for Version-to-Version Migrations? The discussion here about how many z/OS system

Re: Person-Months for Version-to-Version Migrations?

2008-02-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/14/2008 at 09:16 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You haver an interesting question but I think the root question is How is the compatibility between the versions IMHO it depends more on the shop than on the versions. What exits do they use? What local mods do

Re: Person-Months for Version-to-Version Migrations?

2008-02-15 Thread Ed Gould
On Feb 15, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/14/2008 at 09:16 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You haver an interesting question but I think the root question is How is the compatibility between the versions IMHO it depends more on the

Person-Months for Version-to-Version Migrations?

2008-02-14 Thread Timothy Sipples
The discussion here about how many z/OS system programmers? is really interesting to me, and I'd like to ask a related question to expand the discussion a bit more. What are your current experiences in terms of the number of person-months it's taking for version-to-version (v2v) upgrades? Here's a

Re: Person-Months for Version-to-Version Migrations?

2008-02-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Timothy Sipples, You could ask question 14 too: Reason for v2v? Example, you need feature/fix F in product P, but you need to jump to z/OS level 1.??? Or you need level L for Product P because underlying service(s) is going obsolete/expensive/discontinued. Unfortunately, I'm not now in any

Re: Person-Months for Version-to-Version Migrations?

2008-02-14 Thread Ed Gould
On Feb 14, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote: The discussion here about how many z/OS system programmers? is really interesting to me, and I'd like to ask a related question to expand the discussion a bit more. What are your current experiences in terms of the number of person-months