Just for reference... here was your original post: >From my little knowledge, I prefer not cataloging more datasets than >necessary in the master. I don't know if this is a wrong positioning. Is it?
Then that is a good practice. I don't put any data sets in the MCAT these days that aren't part of the OS. Since you can use VOLSER for LNKLST and LPALSTxx, no requirement to. We still do have a few leftovers here from days of old with a special ISV HLQ that was used just for LNKLST / LPALSTxx data sets to put them in the master catalog. Some of the groups who install software (other than "MVS") still do this but I try to get them to rename the data sets to follow the same standards as their other data sets. The only downside is needing to change volsers in PROGxx or LPALSTxx if the data sets are moved to another volume. Not a problem for the "MVS" group since our ISV products go on a volume that is part of the sysres set and are cataloged with symbolics. 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 On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:15:55 +0100, Víctor de la Fuente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No, no. I'm including those datasets into the "necessary set". I was talking >about adding more data sets to the MCAT. > >2007/2/1, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:21:27 +0100, Víctor de la Fuente >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >From my little knowledge, I prefer not cataloging more datasets than >> >necessary in the master. I don't know if this is a wrong positioning. Is >> it? >> >> No. But I don't consider IBM "SYS1" data sets that are part of the OS you >> are running "more than necessary". Just personal preference whether you >> want dlibs cataloged or not. My personal preference is "yes" as long >> as symbolics are used and updated as part of any dlib rollout - be it >> maintenance or OS upgrade (I haven't cloned DLIBs with maintenance >> in quiet a long time... one zone, one (set) dlib volume(s) ). >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
