On Wednesday 02 May 2007 11:35, Dana Mitchell wrote:
> Mark,
>
> I ran into similar problems at a previous site when running as VM guests at
> the hot site.  Ours turned out to be related to the way we had the LOADxx
> member coded.   We had one LOADxx used by all  systems at the site with
> HWNAME and LPARNAME filter statements coded so each system would find the
> proper parmlib concatenations, IEASYSxx and IEASYMxx members.  For DR
> tests, I added VMUSERID statements that would cause the correct values to
> be used when running as a VM  guest at the hot site, but the way the LOADxx
> member is processed, we didn't match any of the filter statements, so ended
> up not using the proper parmlibs etc.  To circumvent this we created new
> LOADxx members for each system to force them to use the proper values.
>
> What I learned from all this is that this mechanism is difficult to test,
> and there are no messages stating what parts of LOADxx member is used or
> not used.
>
> You can contact me off-list if you'd like any more details, but this may be
> contributing to your troubles
>

We installed the parmlib syntax checker package and it seems to do a good job 
in testing parmlib changes.

You can find it in SYS1.SAMPLIB and it is easy to install and use.
-- 

Mark Jacobs
Time Customer Service
Tampa, FL

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