Provide easy method to do a migration from a very old zWS release (example 8.6) to a newer one (example 9.5 or 10.1)

Currently, program EQQICTOP cannot be used to migrate FROM certain releases to other RELEASE. For example you cannot migrate from 8.6 to 9.5 in a single run of EQQICTOP, but you can migrate from 8.6 to 9.3  using an invocation of a  9.3 level of EQQICTOP in one step, and then in a second step use the 9.5 level of EQQICTOP to migrate from this 9.3 level to the 9.5 level.  The problem is that you must have an installed 9.3 level SEQQLMD0 load library to have the 9.3 level of EQQICTOP.  If you don't already have this, you must obtain and install zWS 9.3 to get the load module. Unfortunately you can't order 9.3 or any other out of marketing release from SHOP zSERIES, so you have to go through a special order process involving a lot of paperwork to obtain the 9.3 release and then you still have to do the SMPE install of it, just to be able to run (one time) the EQQICTOP load module.

Ir would be much easier and save a lot of time just to include a suffixed level of EQQICTOP on the SEQQLMD0 library of the current release.  For example for the 10.1 release,EQQICTOP would be the 10.1 level.  EQQICTON would be the 9.5 level (using the same suffix N used for EQQINITN and EQQSSCMN). EQQICTOM  would be the 9.3 level, EQQICTOL would be the 9.2 level, etc.          To migrate from 8.6 to 9.5 would just require running EQQICTOM in the first step of a job, and EQQICTOP for the second step.

Migrations from even older releases would be easy, for example a migration from 8.3 to 8.6  using EQQICTOJ in the first step, then in the second step migrate from 8.6 to 9.3 using EQQICTOM and then in the third step migrate to 10.1 using EQQICTOP.    This avoids the time and expense of having to do special oders for the 8.6 and 9.3 releases and installing both these releases.

The alternative to having separate load modules for each release level (these load modules would never need to be modified) would be to include within a single LOAD MODULE  EQQICTOP  the ability to branch to the code at the TOREL  (release to migrate to) level.