Migration overview

Your plan for migrating to the new level of SMP/E should include information from various sources. These sources of information describe topics such as coexistence, service, migration procedures, and interface changes.

The following documentation, which is supplied with your product order, provides information about installing your z/OS® system. In addition to specific information about SMP/E, this documentation contains information about all of the z/OS elements.

z/OS Planning for Installation
This information describes the installation requirements for z/OS at a system and element level. It includes hardware, software, and service requirements for both the driving and target systems. It also describes any coexistence considerations and actions.
SMP/E Program Directory
This information, which is provided with your SMP/E product order, leads you through the specific installation steps for SMP/E.
ServerPac Installing Your Order
This is the order-customized installation information for using the ServerPac installation method. Be sure to review "Appendix A. Product Information", which describes data sets supplied, jobs or procedures that have been completed for you, and product status. IBM® may have run jobs or made updates to PARMLIB or other system control data sets. These updates could affect your migration.

Within this information, you can find information about the specific updates and considerations that apply to this release of SMP/E.

SMP/E V3R5 overview
This topic describes the specific updates that were made to SMP/E for the current release. For each item, this topic provides an overview of the change, a description of any migration and coexistence tasks that may be considered, and where you can find more detailed information in the SMP/E library or other element libraries.