In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 09/28/2005
at 11:31 AM, Skip Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>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.
Yes. Presumably that's why IBM gave us years of notice. I take such
announcements as a call to start planning now, rather than waiting
until the deadline approaches. These things cost a lot less and cause
less disruption if you have time to do them slowly and methodically.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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