On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:25:34 -0600, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote:


>
>On sysplexes that have shared file systems, I usually put the "directory" file 
>system
>mount points in the sysplex root.   It is already R/W and survives across OS
>upgrades.  So instead of a "one time thing" per OS upgrade, it is a "one time
>thing" - period.
>
>BTW, the same warning about "junk" in the sysplex root as previous
>warnings.  Was at a shop with many sysprogs (CICS/DB2/MVS) that
>had "SU" auth and ended up creating a lot more than just mountpoints
>in the sysplex root.  Eventually the sysplex root had a space issue
>and cleanup needed to be done.   This was before the newroot
>support was added to z/OS  (but doing the cleanup was the right
>thing to do anyway).
>

Jon's post reminded me that while the original design / instructions may have
had the sysplex root mounted as R/W, not all the sysplexes I support have
it that way now.  Some of them mount it as R/O and it gets changed to
R/W if needed to create a new mount point if needed.   That is rare due
to standards that are in place and it keeps the junk from getting put 
in there.   

Mark
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