On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:27:37 -0700, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
>Would people agree with the following? > >If a vendor were shipping a product that resided in two datasets, FOO.THIS >and FOO.THAT, best practice would be to recommend that the installer either >create a user catalog named FOO or a user catalog with an alias of FOO so >that the FOO.xxxx datasets would not take up space in the master catalog? > >Charles Unless you have some (good) reason for MCAT or a (good) reason for your own usercat, I wouldn't mention it at all as it would probably add more confusion then be helpful. MVS sysprog 101 tells you that almost nothing goes in the MCAT other than the "sysres" data sets and shops already have standards for how ISV install and run time data sets are named and where they get cataloged. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
