On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:04:19 -0500, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Should I share SYSRES between sysplexes? I now that I can't share >>PDSE's outside a plex, so I will clone volumes with PDES, but.. what >>about the other O.S. and Software datasets?. > >Lucas, > >You don't mention whether you have MIM available to span ENQs across your >plexes, so I'll presume that you don't. If that is correct, then you >should NOT share a sysres across plexes since you will not have data set >integrity from one plex to the next. > >Clone the sysres to make things easier for you for sure, but don't share >without dataset integrity. (Bad things(tm) happen if you lose integrity.) > We share the sysres across sysplexes and across MIMplexes. But we know it is shared "read only". This includes PDSE data sets. *Please* - search the archives, this has been discussed over and over. BTW, even though the official party line from IBM is "don't share PDSE across sysplex boundries" (even for read only), they share their sysreses across sysplex boundries in system test (and probably other development and test environments also). In general it is certainly true that bad things can happen if you share without an integrity manager and I'm not advocating you do so for your sysres. But it is an option. As I said... search the archives. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
