</quote> Peter, It does work great, doesn't it? No worries about having the wrong HFS mounted to go with your RESVOL, and always IPL with the correct root (or version, if you have a Sysplex shared HFS structure implemented).
Do you have any other products installed in their own HFS? I know that JAVA doesn't play nice with Automount. I suspect the others don't either, but I'm not certain yet. Tom Marchant </quote> Tom, Actually, I haven't seen any issues with java w/in the context of installing service when using this strategy, recently. Originally, when you had to run the post-SMP/E processing, yes it was a pain! Now however, SMP/E does that expansion that used to be post-APPLY processing. Anything that would normally reside on the RESVOL is installed in the RESVOL HFS. Other products, such as CICS, TSM, ISV products, etc.. have their own HFS/ZFS and their own mount point w/in the /service directory, all managed by Automount. It does take some planning, and when each product comes in, working with the person doing the install, so that they don't just blindly install according to the program directory, but make the proper adjustments to the DDDEFS and Automount mapping for the /service directory. For the non-RESVOL products, I look at it like this. You wouldn't want a non-sysres product to install it's code into SYS1.LINKLIB would you? Well, if a product is not in the same global as z/OS, I don't want them installing into the SYSRES HFS. Thanks, Peter I. Vander Woude Sr. Mainframe Engineer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
