Shannon,
"Successfully"? Reminds me of the line from "Stripes" where, when asked
by an Army recruiter if they'd ever been convicted of a felony, one of the
guys responds "*Convicted*?"
I bit the bullet and upgraded from 4.2.3.0 to 5.1.6.0 this past weekend.
We're running z/OS 1.2.
I went directly to 5.1.6.0 (no intervening 5.1.5.x or anything else) and I
know of no problems that resulted. (I had done a last-minute 'cleanup
backupgroups' command just before shutting down 4.2.3.0, in order to make
sure things were as clean as I could get them before the db
upgrade...nothing was found that needed cleaning, since I'd done that
cleanup immediately after upgrading from 4.2.2.10 to 4.2.3.0 about 6 weeks
ago.)
I can say that as far as I can tell, things are no worse here on 5.1.6.0
than they were on 4.2.3.0. So far. And that's not saying much. I've got
open problems on 0C4 abends and CPU loops that are occurring now but that
were also occurring at 4.2.3.0.
Whether you consider this as running on 5.1.6.0 "successfully", I leave to
you to decide. Not very confidence-inspriring, I know, but as I say, at
least things don't seem to be any *worse* than they were. I'm keeping my
fingers crossed.
Regards,
Bill
Bill Kelly
Auburn University
334-844-9917
> I have been watching the list closely for any MVS/OS-390 ITSM v5.1.6 server
> upgrades that have been successful. I have not noticed any. Is there
> anyone out there who has upgraded and used the MVS v5.1.6 successfully?
> April 15th is coming up quickly and I have sent my order in to IBM for the
> ITSM V5.1.6 server. We will probably 'just do it' and hope for the best
> Our test environment is very small so it will not be a great help even
> though we will install it there first. Anyone know of anything I should be
> aware of? Also, I have seen a list of levels and patches that need to be
> installed in order for other ITSM server environments. Mostly, I think, to
> clear up the old orphan System Objects problem. Does anyone know where I
> might find this list for MVS? The one I saw was at a TSM Users meeting,
> someone was going to check if there was a special order of installs for MVS
> but I have never heard back from them. I would appreciate any and all
> feedback.
>
> Thank You,
> Shannon Bach
> Madison Gas & Electric Co.
> Operations Analyst - Data Center Services
> Office 608-252-7260
> Fax 608-252-7098
> e-mail sbach AT mge DOT com
>
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