Absolutely, SMS would get confused. Either use one SMS across all four lpars or stay with one per lpar. The purpose of a shared COMMDS is to communicate allocation activity between lpars to avoid allocation collisions such as you envisioned. If you are going to share the usercat across all lpars anyway, why not merge the four separate SMS' in to one "SMSPLEX"?
Bob Richards -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John M. Cullen Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: SMS question - sharing DASD but not SMS environment 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? John Cullen "'Tis a damn poor mind that cannot think of more than one way to spell a word." (Andrew Jackson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 LEGAL DISCLAIMER The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Seeing Beyond Money is a service mark of SunTrust Banks, Inc. [ST:XCL] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
