It might be better now, but back in the days of SLED, during our conversion to SMS we included the catalogs and had them on SMS managed disk. At the time, out MTBF for real 3390s was around a month. We lost a HDA containing a ICF Catalog. I asked DFHSM to recover the volumes and APPLYINCREMENTAL. It was a disaster in itself. I spent the next week fixing catalog entries and moving all catalogs to non-SMS. I'd advise against SMS managed catalogs volumes :)
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 6:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: ICF Catalogs on SMS managed volumes Hi, Our storage team is considering no longer allocating ICF USER catalogs on dedicated non-SMS volumes moving them into our SMS pool for system data sets. There is some debate here about this here. Do you do this? Do you prevent DFHSM from doing backup and migration on ICF catalogs using management class? I don't see any problem with this provided they assign an appropriate management class. I don't think we want DFHSM trying to do data set level backup on these but I would be interested to know what others are doing. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
