I think the answer will be YES. You can trade money for availability by purchasing one of the handy catalog tools that does reorganization of catalogs while open. Two I know of are:
T-REXX http://www.dino-software.com/ Catalog RecoveryPlus (CR+) http://www.mainstar.com/products/cm/crplus/index.asp Caveat is that neither can reorganize ALL catalogs while open. We have been able to do many but recently had one which was becoming critically full that was simply too busy to reorganize while the Sysplex was operating normally. We dropped down to a single system which had only a few running OEM products and all transactional subsystem down and did a reorganization which worked. The catalog very clearly needs to be split. We have also elected to do the reorganization of master catalogs while those systems were down. I don't recall if this was a limitation of the tool or just a choice or storage management team made but since we started on this a while ago getting finished before R8 doesn't look to be a problem. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 Ferris: Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Skip Robinson Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:31 PM To: [email protected] 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. . . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
