You are begging for trouble if you continue down a path of sharing data without serialization, which is what I assume if I understood your statement "I do NOT have GRS installed" correctly.
Please, set up a valid serialization environment - first. That's my suggestion, anyway. Brian On Thu, 18 May 2006 14:33:13 -0500, Bob Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to set up a multi-host environment which shares multiple 3390 >volumes. I do NOT have GRS installed. I have a DFHSM host in each image >which share a single set of CDS's. One image (OS/390 2.10) is set up with >DFHSM as the PRIMARY=YES host and the other image (z/OS 1.6) is >PRIMARY=NO. Each DFHSM has a unique hostid and both have HOST=MAIN, >CDSR=YES and CDSSHR=YES defined in the startup parms. As the book >suggests, I am running both images with the same ARCCMD00 member which has >both automigration and autobackup defined for most of the shared volumes. >Aside from the occasional RESERVE contention error it works ok but I would >like only one image (OS/390) to do the autobackups. The z/OS image doesn't >have the necessary tape drives attached yet. Is there a way to set the two >DFHSM hosts up so the backup (and possibly the automigration) process is >done by only one image? > >Thanks for any advice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

