z/OS: Migration planning to the latest release
Create a migration plan for IBM® MQ for z/OS® to upgrade to the latest release.
About this task
The goal of this task is for you to create your own plan to migrate your queue managers to the latest release. Incorporate the task to migrate a queue manager, Migrating IBM MQ for z/OS - order of tasks, into your plan.
Migration phase | Required tasks |
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Phase I, before migration. See Preparing to migrate a single IBM MQ for z/OS queue manager for further information. | Preparing each queue manager in your enterprise for migration. |
Phase II, migrate each single queue manager in the order listed. See Migrating a single IBM MQ z/OS queue manager to the next release of the product for further information. | Carry out this process for each queue manager in the order shown:
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Phase III, post migration. See Post migration tasks for further information. | Carry out a full regression test, and then explore the new function available to you.
Optionally, at any time in the process, upgrade your client libraries if necessary, recompile your clients using the additional features provided by the new version, and deploy the clients. |
Procedure
What to do next
Do the task, z/OS: Review and modify queue manager customizations from the previous release to migrate a queue manager. If you must restore a queue manager to the previous version, see z/OS: Reverting a queue manager to a previous release.
When you are confident existing applications are running without migration problems on the latest version, plan to update OPMODE to (NEWFUNC,800) to enable new function.