zos release 4 migration.pptVIP

Copyright ? 2003 Best Customer Solutions, Inc. The Time Has Come!z/OS Release 4 Migration Midwest Capacity Management Group Jim Schesvold Best Customer Solutions, Inc. jschesvold@ AGENDA BCS Overview Why Migrate Now? Preparing for Migration Withdrawn Elements or Functions Migration Tasks QA, Time Allowing WHO IS BCS? A mainframe systems software consulting firm for 10+ yrs z/OS, CICS, DB2, OS/390 related IBM products Related Third Party products (Omegamon, CA products, etc.) Formalized and customized service offerings z/OS OS/390, CICS, DB2 Installation Migration Performance/Tuning, CICS web-enablement, website development Contracts tailored to clients’ needs S expert, co-author of CICS Performance Gd Find out more at Company overview, expertise, success stories, clients Migration Starter Kits Technical articles presentations Service Offerings Links to related sites across the Internet WHY MIGRATE NOW? OS/390 V2R10 support will end in just over a year V2R10 is the only OS/390 release which is supported z/OS V1R1 (3/31/2004) V1R2 will also be unsupported by then z/OS V1R3, V1R4 are all that remain supported after 9/2004 OS/390 V2R10 can no longer be ordered Contact your local IBM office OS/390 V2R10 provides coexistence/fallback support back to OS/390 V2R6 z/OS V1R4 is the last release to provide coexistence/ fallback support with OS/390 V2R10 (or z/OS V1R1) Fallback-only support is available for OS/390 V2R9 z/OS V1R4 projected withdrawal from marketing: 3/2004 z/OS OS/390 Marketing, Service, Withdrawal Dates, at /servers/eserver/zseries/zos/support/zos_eos_dates.html FALLBACK COEXISTENCE Coexistence - When systems share resources VSAM catalogs JES Spool Applications: i.e. Language Environment downward compatibility Consoles, etc., etc., affecting 12 different z/OS (OS/390) elements Sharing can be concurrent, or alternating Support is via maintenance; a.k.a. toleration, compatibility PTFs Fallback - Return to a prior release after a migration Us