On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:56:23 -0500, Mark Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Matt Dazzo wrote: >> >From my reading it seems the restartable PDSE Address space is a good idea and suggested by IBM. I'd like to know if the restartable PDSE address space is a good idea for all MVS environments? We are running zOS1.7 in MONOPLEX MODE with one production and one test lpar. I do not know to what extent PDSE's are used in the shop. >> If you use PDSEs at all outside of the LNKLST, it's a good thing. If you don't, it doesn't matter. If you aren't sure you can scan VTOCs, ask around etc. Either way, it won't hurt to add it. >> Also, are there any specific things to watch out for with the implementation? >> Not really any longer - as long as you are fairly current on maintenance. Some of the parm defaults were changed via APARin z/OS 1.6 when this support was added and there have been some bugs (as there almost always is with new function). >> >> >You have to have PDSE sharing set as extended to have the SMSPDSE1 >active. I don't know if you can specify extended sharing in a monoplex. > You can. On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:01:27 -0500, Dean Montevago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm jumping in late. What does this pertain to ? Why would the address >space abend ? > Why does anything abend? :-) It is not necessarily to recover from an abend. It is to recover from a software error / latch problem etc. without having to IPL since the SMSPDSE1 address space is restartable. SMSPDSE is not. IOW... the reason is RAS - which is why I don't see any down side to using it. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS 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
