z/OSMF can create an extract of the migration information (now called "upgrade" instead of "migration") from the z/OSMF workflow (either z/OS 2.2 to z/OS 2.4 or z/OS 2.3 to z/OS 2.4 - whichever one you import from GitHub or both). It's in HTML format and quite readable with links to the different sections.
While this may not be well known (it wasn't to me), there is also a link on GitHub along with the workflows to pre-exported migration information, which is in essence the migration manual. It's super easy to miss, so read the "readme" carefully. Changing the subject to z/OSMF itself... Although you may not require z/OSMF to get the upgrade information, I still strongly suggest you bite the bullet and get z/OSMF up and running - as long as you are at z/OS 2.3. Like it or not, you're going to need it somewhere in your installation in the near future. It is a helava lot easier in z/OS 2.3 with the PARMLIB member customization taking the place of things you had to do previously do via scripts and unix customization. However, by far the biggest pain has not gotten any easier - all the RACF setup. The sample jobs are nice and are "close" but the don't take everything into account. You need to understand your RACF environment fairly well. For example, if you don't have enhanced generic naming in effect in RACF, some things have to be changed slightly. And there are a lot of jobs to customize / run for the different plugins (I combined mine all into a single job for the RACF people to run). I work with dozens of sysprogs and almost none of them understand anything about RACF admin nor their local environments, and the RACF admins hardly understand RACF admin these days for my clients, let alone anything about z/OS or z/OSMF, so you can see the challenge. Lucky for me, I understand both. I never bit the bullet myself until this year under z/OS 2.3 and it was fairly painless to install in 7 sysplexes after the first one I did in a sandbox sysplex when I had all the RACF jobs built along with other required jobs (CIM zFS creation / customization, z/OSMF zFS creation). Attending some of the z/OSMF user sessions at SHARE years ago made me really dread doing this prior to z/OS 2.3 across many different sysplxes, but with z/OS 2.3 copying some jobs to run and a parmlib member to another sysplex wasn't difficult. Other than waiting for RACF admins to run the RACF jobs for me, I would have had z/OSMF running in a day or two on all but the first sysplex. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
