On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:02:25 -0500, John M. Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We want to share a few DASD among our four Lpars and have SMS >doing allocation. Each Lpar runs z/OS as a monoplex seperate >from the others. Two are 1.4 and two are 1.7 right now. >We do not have any kind of sysplex. Nor do we have an SMSplex, >whatever that is. > >We would update SMS rules in every Lpar to indicate these >volsers in an SMS storage group and set up storageclass, dataclass >& mgmtclass. Each high level qualifier would be setup in every >Lpar's master catalog using an existing ucat on a non-SMS dasd >that is online to all lpars. > >Would SMS for lpar-P get confused if SMS for lpar-D was allocating >a file on those dasd at the same time she was? Does SMS from one >lpar need to know what SMS from the other lpar is doing? You can run your four monoplexes in a shared SMS configuration with a single shared SCDS/ACDS and common ACS routines. SMS is aware of the other systems, but each acts independantly. That's what an SMS-Plex is. This kind of configuration goes back to the early days of SMS, and I'd recommend that you do it that way. When I set up SMS in just such an environment, we also had a GRS ring in place among the MVS images. I forget whether or not it is a requirement. Are you already running SMS on your four LPARs? I have never shared volumes between different SMS environments. Perhaps someone else has something to say about that. Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
