Migrating z/OS stand-alone application servers

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 stand-alone application servers to WebSphere® Application Server Version 9.0.

Before you begin

Supported configurations Supported configurations:

This article is about profile configuration migration. To migrate your applications to the latest version, use the WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit. For more information, see the Migration Toolkit on WASdev.

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Read Overview of migration, coexistence, and interoperability and Migration considerations. For resources to help you plan and perform your migration, visit Knowledge Collection: Migration planning for WebSphere Application Server.

About this task

Complete this task to migrate a WebSphere Application Server for z/OS® Version 7.0 or later application server to a Version 9.0 stand-alone application server.

For transitioning users For transitioning users: The following products previously required separate migration tools but are now migrated as part of the standard migration procedures:
  • WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid or Feature Pack for Modern Batch
  • WebSphere Virtual Enterprise or Intelligent Management
For more information about these changes, see What is new for migration.trns
Tip: For help, read Troubleshooting migration.

Procedure

  1. Print the Migrating a z/OS stand-alone application server: Checklist, and use it as you conduct your migration.
  2. Inventory your applications and capture key information as described in Preparing to migrate a z/OS stand-alone application server.
  3. Generate a set of migration jobs and instructions.

    Read Preparing to migrate a stand-alone application server 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 a 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 BBOMBINS member of the CNTL dataset that you generated, and refer to the information in Migrating a stand-alone application server on the z/OS operating system.

What to do next

After you migrate the stand-alone application server, use the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Version 9.0 administrative console or scripting to administer the migrated application server.


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