To successfully perfom the Multisystem Upgrade process, ensure that all of the following requirements are met:
The master IOA environment and all slave IOA environments have the same level of INCONTROL software.
The master IOA environment has the INCONTROL Installation and Customization Engine (ICE).
The master IOA environment is SMP/E-managed.
All slave IOA environments are not SMP/E-managed.
Slave IOA environments can have different sets of installed IOA products, but all products installed on any of the slave IOA environment are installed on the master IOA environment.
Contents of the IOA LOAD library are identical on the master IOA environment and all slave IOA environments. This includes the following customizations, which must be identical on all environments:
User exits
Security exits
Type of security subsystem
Binding to third-party products
Control-T SVC number
The following libraries on the master IOA environment and on all slave IOA environments must not contain any installation-specific customization, that is, hard-coded, installation-specific values for installation parameters (such as data set prefixes):
