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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 It's Tax Season: 3 Secrets to Driving Your Mainframe Success in 2018 Wednesday, March 28 | 1 ET / Noon CT FEATURING: Learn How to Pay Less MLC Tax While Increasing Service Levels In this webinar, you will learn how to view the MLC cost challenge from a different perspective. If you believe that reducing costs could affect availability and increase risk, and that new pricing models add further complexity to understanding the impact to future costs, then approaching cost savings opportunities as a one-time effort can be flawed. Controlling MLC costs is an infrastructure cost management problem that can be addressed with a carefully planned structured approach. Jeremy Hamilton Senior Product Manager BMC Software Wayne Wilson Advisory Technical Consultant BMC Software Register Today: webcasts.com/ibmsystemsmag sponsored advertising content ibmsystemsmag.com MARCH/APRIL 2018 // 45