On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:53:07 +0200, Barbara Nitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mark, >Out of curiosity: What's the problem with RACF datasharing? We do that, too, and never had a problem with fresh CFRM policies. > If your first IPL loads a CFRM then I wouldn't expect a problem. The first IPL without any CFRM policy loaded (we don't have the pre-loaded one since we don't know what hardware we will be running on) puts RACF in read only mode. So we issue the command to turn off datasharing, load and start the CFRM policy, then turn on datasharing. As Skip pointed out, the CFRM policy could be pre-loaded from a floor system or rescue system etc., but there are some other things we do doing the first IPL of the first system and then we re-ipl. Since we started mirroring, we don't even require any floor / rescue system. We can just IPL our own systems. Although it is still in our written procedures to do so at the moment just to find the current IPL address. The plan is to have that optional and send that information to multiple email addresses (yahoo and hotmail). We already do that for some other stuff (tape / vaulting information mostly). I don't really like relying on a floor system. It could be down level compared to our production systems (or even a higher level could be a problem). So I still maintain a onepak system (see my web site for an example) that matches our OS level "just in case". 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
