>>> On 8/6/2009 at 11:47 AM, in message <45d79eacefba9b428e3d400e924d36b902557...@iwdubcormsg007.sci.local>, "Thompson, Steve" <[email protected]> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Scott Rowe > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: DASD: to share or not to share > > I think the real question here is: Why don't you have a SYSPLEX? There > is = > little to no cost involved, and many benefits. > >>>> Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> 8/6/2009 12:15 PM >>>> > <SNIPPAGE> > > We're slowly coming to this realization. We don't have a Sysplex, and > shar= > ing PDSE's, while it works somewhat, doesn't work that great. My > personal = > libraries are PDSEs and if I am logged on to both PROD and DEV at the > same = > time I have to make sure I am not trying to edit members in the same > PDSE i= > n both environments. Blech. I thought PDSEs were the future? > > <SNIPPAGE> > > If you set this up correctly, you will get Record Level Locking for VSAM > which will give you some benefits that you lost in moving from VSE. It > is something to think about, if you are heavily using VSAM with onlines > and batch.
Can you explain this a bit more? I will admit to not even knowing how this works on VSE. Thanks, Frank -- Frank Swarbrick Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development FirstBank Data Corporation Lakewood, CO USA P: 303-235-1403 F: 303-235-2075 The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
