On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:58:43 -0500, Jousma, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm just the opposite. The finished state for my systems, is to have >no SMPE TARGET's or DLIB's cataloged at all. It would be nice if >Serverpack didn't require the targets to be cataloged as part of the >allocds/RESTORE job(with the exception of HFS/ZFS). The dialogs know >what volumes they are being allocted to when restoring them all. It >just seems easier because then there really is no use for the SSA's as >far as I can tell. Every serverpac I do, I setup the dialogs with the >names I want, but then before I run the alloc job, I modify the >jobstream and change the target datasets. I do the same in the restore >job, and when completed, uncatalog, and rename all the datasets to what >I wanted in the first place. If the restore job just had a vol=ser >reference in the dd statements, I wouldn't even have to do that. > That won't work for HFS/zFS since you can't mount by VOLSER. Also a problem for SMS managed DSNs since they have to be cataloged. When you say no SMP/E targets are cataloged, do you mean they are a different name than the "live" cataloged versions? My SMP/E targets aren't cataloged either in that sense. They have the same name but are referenced via DDDEF with VOLSER. That is why I am able to "throw away" the CPAC master catalog after DSNs have been renamed to remove the SSA (and DDDEFs have been updated via supplied job). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
