I have to go with Radoslaw on this one. I thought that ECS is an exclusive function of parallel sysplex. We also 'share' a handful of catalogs across sysplex boundaries, but this is not ECS. Issue this command and look for a status of Active:
f catalog,ecshr(status) . . . 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 10/09/2005 12:38:41 PM: > We use ECS for most of all catalogs including the Master Catalog > exlcuding some emergency catalogs. > All devices are shared cross sysplex, SHR (3,4). No problems so far. > > Roland > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: ECS Sharing and MCAT > > > Hi all, > > Does any of you use ECS Sharing facility with Master Catalogs ? > If they are allocated in devices defined as shared and has > shareoptions(3 4), theoretically there is no impeditive in > doing this, even if they are not shared among systems. > > Any comments ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

