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will be viewable and you can
perform them if needed.

More Health Conscious
IBM Health Checker for z/OS
has become an essential tool for
the z/OS system programmer-
not just for maintaining the
availability of z/OS, but also for
migration.
The z/OS V2.3 Migration
Workflow continues in that
direction. It runs the appropriate
migration health checks for your
specific migration path and lets
you know if you should perform
the associated migration action.
For important information about
each check, carefully read the
instructions on the Perform tab
before running the health check.
Of course, running a health
check will never change any
configuration settings on your
system. That responsibility
remains in your hands. But IBM
can help you identify what needs
to be done.

A Good Listener
Previous migration workflows
included a feedback form as
a companion step for every
migration action. This approach
was adequate for collecting
feedback, but the resulting
"doubling" of the perceived
number of workflow steps-more
than 500-made for a pretty
daunting workflow.
z/OSMF Development has
provided a better way to collect
your feedback. In z/OS V2.3, the
z/OSMF team added a function to
help workflow step owners give
feedback on their experience. The
new feedback function provides a
simple way for step owners to give
(optional) input to the provider
of any workflow that exploits the
feedback function.
IBM wants you to have every
opportunity to provide specific,
timely and insightful information

on your migration experience. When you open the
z/OS V2.3 Migration Workflow, you see a new folder
called "Feedback" on every leaf step. To let us know
whether a particular step was easy or hard, or could be
improved in some way, simply click on the Feedback
folder, answer a couple of easy questions, and save
it (see Figure 1, page 46). At some point, when the

workflow owner is ready to provide
some feedback, he or she simply
gathers all the feedback into a
single file using the Workflows
action Generate Feedback
Summary. Before sending the file
to IBM, the workflow owner can

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