Haven't seen any results so I thought I'd give it another go. Anyone
willing to pat me on the back and say, "Go for it, sonny," or shake a
mighty finger with, "You *stoopid* fool! Don't you know that..."
*grin*
I'm/we're trying to move to a more sophisticated SMS setup from the
basic StorClas->StorGrp we have now and this's the first leap. How
do *you* test a new SMS configuration before the production LPar?
Again, tks for any help or suggestions...
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:16:35 -0400
From: Neil Duffee <[log in to unmask]>
Looking for opinions/affirmations on my line of thinking for testing
a new SCDS configuration. We're z/OS v1.4, z890, & MonoPlex'd but all
the LPar's are in a single SMSPlex ie. sharing COMMDS & ACDS. I've
got a major change in both SCDS & ACS which I've hand & batch
(NaviQuest) checked over & again but would love to try a live test.
>From the single hint in the Storage Admin Ref, "If the COMMDS and
ACDS are different from the ones used by the remainder of the SMS
complex, then the system runs as a separate SMS complex." then I
should be able to, in one fell swoop, issue: SETSMS COMMDS(new)
ACDS(new) SCDS(new)
- 'cept that COMMDS is exclusive of other all other parms.
So I'm thinkin' that, in the testing LPar, I need to:
1 allocate new, empty COMMDS & ACDS
2 SETSMS SAVEACDS(new)
3 create SYS1.PARMLIB(IGDSMSnew) listing both the new ACDS & COMMDS
4 SET SMS=new
- starts a 'new' SMSplex containing only this 'test' LPar
5 SETSMS SCDS(new)
- activates the new configuration in the 'new' ACDS
- should *not* affect any other LPar (different SMSplex)
6 test the snot out of it before trying it on production
My biggest worry is that the other LPars might pick up the
configuration change; production 'specially. Tks for all hints,
warnings, and suggestions.
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Neil Duffee, Joe SysProg, U d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont, Canada
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"For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."
"Systems Programming: Guilty, until proven innocent" John Norgauer
2004
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