Re: Migrate MQ from 7.0.1 to 9.1

2019-08-30 Thread Andy Cooper
Thank you, David. Very good information for Dana. And "NEWFUNC" was the parm I couldn't recall off the top of my head. :-) Andy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Migrate MQ from 7.0.1 to 9.1

2019-08-29 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Dana and Andy, You can omit (ZPARM) OPMODE and let it default as a first attempt. You can code MEMLIMIT=3G, provided that OPMODE is set to either (NEWFUNC,800) or (NEWFUNC,900) (in a later attempt). You should also code REGION=0M in the MSTR Proc. Just before shutting down the Queue Manager,

Re: Migrate MQ from 7.0.1 to 9.1

2019-08-29 Thread Andy Cooper
Hi, Dana... I did this exact upgrade last year when our shop upgraded z/OS v1.13 to v2.2. As far as I remember, this upgrade only needed an MQ parm changed for the correct / new version - can't recall what parm it was, but I'm sure you can find it. Didn't have to change anything else, and

Re: Migrate MQ from 7.0.1 to 9.1

2019-08-28 Thread Timothy Sipples
Please "contact your friendly IBM representative" if you want to investigate whether it's possible to place a special order for some intermediate MQ for z/OS release, such as 7.1, to facilitate your upgrade. Planning information for migration from Version 7.0.1 to 7.1 is available here for

Re: Migrate MQ from 7.0.1 to 9.1

2019-08-28 Thread Bill Johnson
My understanding was you needed to be on v7.1 to migrate to a more recent version. This chart seems to support that. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aimsupport/resource/MQ_migration/WMQ_Migration.pdf?lang=en   Back when I supported MQ, I had to migrate from v7.0.1 to v7.1

Migrate MQ from 7.0.1 to 9.1

2019-08-28 Thread Dana Mitchell
I am beginning on an unsupported migration from MQ 7.0.1 to 9.1. Has anyone done this before and have evidence that it does/does not work? Or am I looking at recreating a whole new queue manager for V9.1? I would gladly jump 7.0.1->8->9.1 but it looks like 9.1 is the only version