Map Scenario 2: Migrating a job manager profile and its registered set of servers using the z/OS Configuration Migration Management Tool

You can migrate a job manager profile and its registered set of servers from Version 7.0 to Version 8.0.

Before you begin

Supported configurations Supported configurations:

This topic is about configuration migration, such as migrating deployment managers and federated nodes in a network deployment environment. The Application Migration Toolkit for WebSphere Application Server provides support for migrating applications from previous versions of WebSphere Application Server to the latest product version. For information about migrating applications, read more about the Application Migration Toolkit.

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Review the migration planning information. See Knowledge Collection: Migration planning for WebSphere® Application Server.

New feature New feature: You can migrate administrative agent profiles and the registered set of managed base application servers from Version 7.0 to Version 8.0.newfeat

About this task

This task outlines the steps needed to migrate the job manager and the set of registered servers.

Job manager profiles can have one or more of the following server types registered:
Avoid trouble Avoid trouble:
  1. Managed base application servers and deployment manager servers cannot accept jobs from a job manager that is of a previous version. To avoid problems, migrate your job manager profiles to Version 8.0 before you migrate managed base application servers and deployment manager servers to Version 8.0.
  2. When migrating the managed base application server or managed deployment manager in a flexible management environment, the node names must be the same in Version 8.0 and the previous releases.
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New feature New feature: You can migrate job manager profiles and the registered set of servers from Version 7.0 to Version 8.0.newfeat

Procedure

  1. Run the backupConfig command on the administrative agent and all the managed base application servers
  2. Install WebSphere Application Server Version 8.0
  3. Specify an job manager migration configuration in the z/OS Migration Management Tool
  4. Stop the old job manager
  5. Run the migration jobs for the administrative agent
  6. Verify all of the migration output that is generated
  7. Add STEPLIB statements that include the previous version's load modules to the migrated Daemon's startup proc
  8. Start the Version 8.0 job manager
  9. Migrate the registered servers
  10. Troubleshooting

Results

You have migrated a job manager profile and its associated managed base application servers from WebSphere Application Server Version 7.0 to Version 8.0 using the migration tools.




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