Hi Dana, This is a good comment about the organization of the z/OS Upgrade Workflow! I'm glad you brought it up.
When we were organizing the z/OS Migration book, oh so many years ago, we had debated just your point. Should we do it by element-first, or timing-first? As you know when using the z/OS Migration book, we ultimately decided on doing element-first as that made it easier for folks to skip entire elements they were not concerned with vs. having to go into multiple sections of the book and ignore those elements specifically. When we converted the book to the Workflow, we had kept with that same decision. I'm very open to changing the order of the steps in the Workflow, if that would help folks. Of course, we can't be all things to all people, and I really don't want to encourage someone to look at the very basic exported Workflow, so I'll take this back to see if we can do some arranging which might address this specific comment. If you have any other comments on the z/OS Upgrade Workflow, I'm very happy to hear them! As you probably know, we are continually trying to improve the upgrade process. Two big pieces of that are eliminating the number of tasks that are needed for a release upgrade, and having fewer steps to do in the z/OS Upgrade Workflow by using "system discovery" techniques. Thanks, Dana. -Marna WALLE z/OS System Installation and Upgrade ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
