Brian , >We have 2 SMSPLEXES within a bronze SYSPLEX. > >GRS is common to all LPARS, but most everything else is not. > >Now we have a new DB2 application coming that will require application >datasets which will be required to be written to from all LPARS in the PLEX. > >I've shared volumes before by having a storage group which is written to >from one SMSPLEX being online and in read mode from another plex with no >problems, but for both sides to be able to allocate, write & extend datasets >then I'm wondering if there's any gottchas coming at me. > SMS keeps space utilization information for each managed volume in the communications dataset. By allowing multiple SMSplexes to allocate, extend and delete datasets on the same volume(s), you will likely get these stats out of whack. The result would be something like never allocating a dataset to a given volume because SMS thinks the volume is full (exceeds high threshold) or tries to allocate a dataset on a volume that does not have enough space. If I remember correctly, the only way to clear the statistics was to remove the volume from the SMS configuration, activate the configuration, add the volume back to the configuration and then active the configuration.
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