The MVS Migration System (MVS-MS) - 5787-MVS

The MVS Migration System (MVS-MS) was distributed by IBM to its world-wide VSE customers as a Field-Developed Program (FDP) from 1986 to 1997. MVS-MS was based on Cortex-MS and until 1992, there were almost no differences between the two products.

There were two releases of the MVS-MS product:

1. V1R1 was announced in October 1986 (286-489); the price for an 18-month license in the U.S. was $65k.
2. V1R2 in May 1989 (289-163); the licence fee for U.S. customers was increased to $75k.
   Our recollection is that V1R2 included only two noticeable elements:
   1. Sample CCCA jobs (MVS JCL) for customers using VS COBOL II in MVS
   2. Tool to generate VSE and MVS file transfer JCL; this was based on a technique we invented in 1985

In May 1987, IBM announced the IBM SOLUTIONPAC VSE/MVS Migration Assistant (287-197) for its MVS-MS customers.

The MVS-MS product received no functional enhancement after the second release. IBM discontinued marketing and support for MVS-MS in 1997 (997-358), along with a host of other IBM offerings which were considered "not year 2000 ready".

MVS-MS is mentioned several times in GG66-3113 - VSE to MVS Differences and Migration Guide and SG24-2043 - VSE to OS/390 Migration Workbook.

The MVS-MS Library

Here is a complete list of the documents available with the MVS-MS product: