Maybe I'm overly jittery, but I'm actually more concerned about user catalogs for CICS regions. These catalogs are shared among all members of a sysplex. If we have to take down all regions to rebuild catalogs, that is effectively a sysplex-wide outage whether or not we IPL.
. . . 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 01:08:14 PM: > We've been 'fixing' our catalogs for some time now and it has NEVER > resulted in a sysplex-wide shut down. Of course, if it affects a shared > master catalog then there will be interesting work ahead for you, but > even that shouldn't require a sysplex-wide shutdown. > > Don Imbriale > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > >Of Skip Robinson > >Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:56 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: IMBED in R8 > > > >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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
