Home » Infrastructure » Other Operating Systems » "Best" Method for Upgrading from OS/390 v7.3.3.6.3 to v8.1.7
"Best" Method for Upgrading from OS/390 v7.3.3.6.3 to v8.1.7 [message #113677] Thu, 26 April 2001 08:10 Go to next message
Robert Buchanan
Messages: 1
Registered: April 2001
Junior Member
Et Al,

I posted the following on Metalink OS/390 forum on Monday, but also wanted to post here to get feedback from the community at large. Thank you.

"Best" Way to Upgrade 7.3.3.6.3 to 8.1.7

I'd just like a quick feel from the community - from those who have upgraded as to what is the best
upgrade approach. For example, export/import, in-place upgrade, new db with SQL*Copy..?????

The largest OS/390 database is about 130Gig - with 119 datafiles and about 35 tablespaces. Since
partitioning is not available in 7.3, we kind of faked it by creating for three subystems that want six
months online transactions (about 35 million rows per month) six separate tables in in their own
data/index tablespaces joined by a view - so I could also "stage" the upgrade - for example, dump to
tape the four oldest months of each of those, truncate them and then do an in-place upgrade of the
two current months and then copy back in the older data.

Anyway, your thoughts??? And, any "gotchas" to look for? Also - this database cannot be down for
an extended period of time - it is "virtually" 24 by 7 - I could probably have it down for about 5 - 7
hours on a Sunday morning - that is it.

Thanks in advance.

Robert Buchanan, DBA
National Processing Company
1231 Durrett Lane
Louisville, KY 40285
(502) 315-2338
Re: "Best" Method for Upgrading from OS/390 v7.3.3.6.3 to v8.1.7 [message #113879 is a reply to message #113677] Fri, 01 November 2002 10:59 Go to previous message
Meg
Messages: 16
Registered: November 2002
Junior Member
So what WAS the best way?? We may be faced with that in the very near future......
Previous Topic: z/os & oracle
Next Topic: Re: Migrating Oracle to an IBM OS390 mainframe
Goto Forum:
  


Current Time: Thu Mar 28 18:09:25 CDT 2024