Migration overview

This section summarizes the steps you must perform before installing a new release of Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS. You should plan for the migration by installing and stabilizing the new Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS release without incorporating the new functions provided. Installing a new Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS release without initially exploiting new functions allows you to create a stable environment.

Migration steps overview

To install and activate Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS, you must perform the following steps:

  1. Ensure you have the required environment for Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS
  2. Make the necessary modifications
  3. Stop the scheduler version you are currently running
  4. Convert the data sets
  5. Start Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS

Only summary information appears in this section. Detailed instructions about how to make specific changes are in the chapters that follow or in referenced publications.

Establishing the required environment

You use SMP/E to install the Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS software. Refer to the Program Directory for specific instructions about using SMP/E to install Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS.

|IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS Version 8.6 must run in the z/OS® environments |from Release 1.10 or later.

Program requirements

Before installing Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS, check the preventive service bucket for a current list of the required products, their maintenance levels, and recommendations from the service organizations.

|The PSP for this release can be found in the |TWSZOS860 upgrade. Read this document carefully before you start to |install Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS.

|Your installation must have at least the earliest release |supported for migration, which is Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS Version 8.2.