Hi Andy, In response to your query yesterday asking for user feedback on Enhanced Catalog Sharing -- about a year ago I wrote a Technical Paper on use of Enhanced Catalog Sharing (ECS) that you might want to look at.
The Technical Paper can be found on the Mainstar web site -- www.mainstar.com. On the pull-down menu for Resources, click on Technical Articles, search on ICF Catalog Management and you'll find a wealth of papers (about 20) dealing with catalog management issues -- one of them is titled ICF Catalog Shared Access Performance: Experiences With ECS. I wrote this paper as a result of widespread FUD about ECS, using data gathered from IBM Main Listserv members and our own Catalog RecoveryPlus user base. It contains background information about what ECS is, anecdotal user experience stories about ECS, and survey results of who's using ECS and how successful it is for them. Mainstar has a wealth of experience in many areas ICF catalogs, and we're currently running a free eLearning training course, titled ICF Catalog Management - Best Practices (the plug for this was approved by Darren when I first posted it in early February). This is a free, six eLesson course on a wide range of ICF catalog management topics (backup, recovery, diagnostics, tuning, and 24x7 considerations), sent out via e-mail once a month to registered subscribers. To register, go to the Mainstar home page (www.mainstar.com) and you'll find a link. We're ready to send out our third eLesson, but we'll include all previous eLessons. While ECS is not one of the course topics, we might add it as a seventh eLesson Best regards, Ron Ferguson President and CEO Mainstar Software Corporation www.mainstar.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
