OK, I did a Ready, Fire, Aim. We got mixed up between One-byte Console Id, which will no longer work in R8, and IMBED, which will stop working 'in a future release'. So panic mode is suspended but not cancelled. I myself did not realize that catalogs were affected. See II13894 for more information on the sniffer tool.
I repeat my concern: if catalogs will break as well as ordinary clusters, MANY of us are looking at some very serious down. Meaning that entire sysplexes will be down cold for extended periods. So not good. . . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 09/28/2005 12:42:08 PM: > The latest word from Mark Thomen regarding the future of IMBED/REPLICATE > which I found in IBM-MAIN was: > http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0408&L=ibm-main&P=R51100 > This post was from August 2004, and said "future release". > > The latest word (as of today) from IBM is here: > http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/zos_sods.html > This web page was last updated on July 26, 2005, and said "future release". > > Of course, "future release" could (will) change to "next release" at any > time. > > Mark Thomen also observed here that IMBED/REPLCATE can be removed from a > catalog by performing an EXPORT/IMPORT (after installing OA10952): > http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0506&L=ibm-main&P=R47099 > > Brian > > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:02:45 -0400, Porowski, Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Ray, > > > >The INCXCISZ tool noted datasets with IMBED and REPLICATE as well as those > with INDXCISZ smaller than the 'new' default. > > > >Skip, > >What IBM document stated that IMBED goes away in 'R8'? Last I heard was > that it would go away in some future release after 1.7 (not necessarily the > release immediately after 1.7). > > > >-----Original Message----- > >Skip Robinson > > > >Subject: IMBED in R8 > > > >IBM has announced that VSAM clusters with IMBED will no longer be usable > >in > >the next release after 1.7, call it 'R8'. We've run the supplied utility > >to > >ferret out any IMBEDs that remain after all this time and found--much to > >our chagrin--that we have a lot of catalogs with that attribute. > >Including > >master catalogs! Must all of these be recreated? If so, we're looking at > >some serious sysplex-wide outages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
