On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Staller, Allan <[email protected]>wrote:
> A basic sysplex will provide z/OS availability, an improvement over > single image. This can be done for the cost of a few CTC connections > between LPARS. If you have the spare channels to define as CTC's, this > is fairly easy to do. > > IIRC, (I know someone will correct me if I am wrong) a basic sysplex > will also provide PDSE sharing within the sysplex. > > AFAIK there is no way with IBM vanilla code to share PDSE's across a > SYSPLEX boundary (either monoplex or multi-system). Some 3rd party > products will support this. Not that I am aware of. This is an architectural limitation on PDSEs (XCF is involved). No 3rd party product is going to get around that. MIM does not and so that pretty much seals the deal. Sharing of PDSE's across sysplex boundaries or between (among) non-sysplexed LPARs R/O or otherwise is not supported. Break the rules and you'll get broken results. > > > <snip> > > > Unless your two systems are in the same Sysplex (Base or Parallel) I > would > > highly recommend that you do not share your sysres disk...they contain > PDSE > > datasets that you shouldn't share outside a sysplex. > > > > Similarly, any disk you do share should not contain PDSE datasets. > > We're slowly coming to this realization. We don't have a Sysplex, and > sharing 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 in both environments. Blech. I thought PDSEs were the > future? > </snip> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Guy Gardoit z/OS Systems Programming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
