On Thu, 15 May 2008 10:17:09 -0500, Arthur Gutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >During sandbox testing, and implementing our first production system last >night, I discovered that GRS Star does not IPL when you have a brand- >spanking new CFRM dataset, even if it has a policy loaded into it, because >that policy has not yet been STARTED. Because you cannot START the policy >from the new CFRM dataset prior to IPL, and COMMNDxx is too late to start >the policy, I found I had to override the IPL SYSP=(xx,yy,...),GRS=TRYJOIN, >get the Ring initialized, start the CFRM policy, then SETGRS MODE=STAR. I >IPLed a second time, just to make sure all was well. > >Just some food for thought... If anyone else is in STAR, using the "clean" >CFRM technique and has an easier way, I'd love to hear from you. Going >forward, this might not be a concern for us, but the first one was a little >rough. > That is how we do it for the sysplexes running GRS STAR. 1) IPL with an IEASYSxx that has GRS=TRYJOIN, 2) Load a CFRM policy 3) START CFRM policy 4) SETGRS MODE=STAR. 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
