On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 14:39:32 -0700, Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> >VSAM (and all SMS datasets) can't exist without being cataloged. Shared >Catalogs are not "safe" without integrity protection. Integrity >protection takes MIM ($) or Sysplex ($) and both require time to >configure and maintain. As the only real z/OS Sysprog here, I'm hard >pressed to keep up as it is, so it's unlikely I'll ever plex and I know >we'll never buy MIM. > GRS is free and it doesn't require a sysplex. Or you can use a basic sysplex. Yes, there is some configuration steps, but once set up it isn't likely to eat into your time. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ 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
