Scenarios handled by the Multisystem Upgrade process

The following table summarizes typical scenarios that are handled by the Multisystem Upgrade process:

Table 26a Typical Multisystem Upgrade scenarios

Scenario	Handling during Multisystem Upgrade process

Scenario	Data sets of Category 1*	System symbols
Master and slave IOA environments have different data set prefixes reside on the same LPAR	All members of the data sets can be copied as is	Not supported
Master and slave IOA environments have different data set prefixes reside on different LPARs	All members of the data sets can be copied as is	Supported, optional
Master and slave IOA environments have the same data set prefixes reside on different LPARs	The data sets can be copied as is OR You can share the data sets between the master and slave IOA environments by placing them on a SYSRES volume and using an indirect catalog	Supported, optional

* For a description of this category of data sets, see Categories of data sets handled by the Multisystem Upgrade.
For a full list of the data sets in this category, see Limitations and requirements.