On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:33:30 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Even if it was a separate sysplex with shared DASD and all LPARs in the >owning sysplex were down, you can't just "move" a couple data set. The >VOLSER is saved in the sysplex (XCF) couple data set. > Ask me how I know. :-) Around Y2K time I was upgrading the OS of an acquired company for a client. IIRC, OS/390 1.2 to OS/390 2.8. I built a clone of their production system with virtually all system data sets having the same name except the master catalog (I had to have some place to start and was also using an SSA). Some data sets were created as new and some were just copied "as is" to new volumes and then cataloged using define nonvsam etc. So I copied the production LPAR's couple data sets and cataloged them to the new volsers. When I IPLed the test system I saw the messages about the "sysplex in use" etc. We often saw those when we IPLed a test system in a different "slot" (another available LPAR... there was one test slot per CPC). So I didn't read the messages carefully and replied "I" to initialize the sysplex. Guess which system initialized? (only one guess allowed) I think that was the last time I crashed a production LPAR. I won't say it was the only time in my 20+ years of doing this. Luckily it was a very small environment and my client liked me a lot so they didn't boot me out the door (I had already been consulting there for about 3 years). Eventually, I went to work for them full time. End of story (for now). 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
