In this scenario, you install the PowerExchange software into a different location from the previous installation, and you create a new location for your PowerExchange data files.

Where possible, you then copy the PowerExchange data files from the previous release that you intend to use with the new release to the new data location. You also update configuration parameters and other variables to point to the new location of the data.

This approach does not work for all PowerExchange data. For example, you cannot use new data set names for the PowerExchange Logger for z/OS active and archive logs and then copy the existing data. For the PowerExchange Logger for z/OS, you must either keep the existing names or lose all existing captured data.

Use the following process: