Convert VSAM files to the new system format

  1. Create a backup copy of the IBM Z Workload Scheduler VSAM files.
  2. Back up the IBM Z Workload Scheduler non-VSAM data sets.
  3. Allocate VSAM and non-VSAM data sets for IBM Z Workload Scheduler by using the EQQPCS01 and EQQPCS02 jobs.
  4. Review the EQQICNVS sample job. Ensure that input and output data set names are correctly specified.

    Ensure that JS1 is the active JCL repository in option 6.6 on the previous Z controller. If JS2 is the active JCL repository, use that as input, but make sure that JS1 is used as output because IBM Z Workload Scheduler by default uses JS1 as the active JCL repository when you start a subsystem with an empty checkpoint data set.

    The old NCP is used as input if a daily plan batch process was submitted on the previous system prior to shut down. Output is the IBM Z Workload Scheduler NCP.

  5. Run EQQICNVS to convert the VSAM data to IBM Z Workload Scheduler format.
  6. Verify that the conversion program ran successfully. If there are any problems converting the VSAM files, you should abandon the migration.