On Tue, 22 May 2007 08:15:16 -0400, John Eells wrote: ><snip> >>> I am completely naive of "indirect cataloguing". What book should >>> I read? > >- The parameters for DEFINE NONVSAM in z/OS DFSMS Access Method >Services for Catalogs: > >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2i250/16.1.1?SHELF=EZ2ZO10h&DT=20060630014839&CASE= > Got it. Thanks. In fact, I had some vague knowledge of the facility, but not by name, nor how to use it.
How worthwhile is it for an ISV to provide skeleton JCL for the customer to use in cataloguing with indirect volume references? (And I note that some vendors' testing resources might be much taxed by validating such a facility.) "NONVSAM". Is there comparable support for VSAM, or would customers expect the CSI to be simply catalogued, with multiple TARGET and DLIB zones referring to indirectly catalogued libraries? This feels soooo risky: running an APPLY or ACCEPT job on the wrong system could be disastrous. It would feel safer if all update jobs made direct references to the output data sets, and any indirect references were read-only. Thanks again, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
