Migrating deployment managers for z/OS

Use the available planning information, information on how to generate the migration jobs and instructions, high-level migration checklist, and detailed migration explanation when you migrate deployment managers to WebSphere® Application Server Version 9.0.

Before you begin

Supported configurations:

This topic is about profile configuration migration. To migrate your applications to the latest version, use the WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit.

Read Overview of migration, coexistence, and interoperability and Migration considerations.

About this task

Complete this task to migrate a WebSphere Application Server for z/OS® Version 7.0 or later deployment manager to a Version 9.0 deployment manager.

Tip: For help, read Troubleshooting migration.

Procedure

  1. Print the Migrating a z/OS deployment manager: Checklist, and use it as you conduct your migration.
  2. Inventory your applications, and capture key information as described in Preparing to migrate a WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment cell for z/OS.
  3. Generate a set of migration jobs and instructions.

    Read Preparing to migrate a deployment manager using the z/OS Migration Management Tool and Processing a migration definition using the z/OS Migration Management Tool for information on generating and uploading your migration definition using the z/OS Migration Management Tool.

    Read Using the zmmt command to create migration definitions on z/OS for information on generating migration definitions using the zmmt command.

  4. Follow the customized instructions in the BBOMDINS member of the CNTL dataset that you generated and refer to the information in Migrating a z/OS deployment manager.

Results

After you migrate the deployment manager, use the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Version 9.0 administrative console or scripting to administer the migrated deployment manager.