On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:07:44 -0700, Jerry Whitteridge
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As you can't share datasets outside of a sysplex boundary (safely) I'd
>like to know how you do that.
>
1) This is VSAM. PDSE and HFS can't be shared across sysplex
boundry.
2) Sharing datasets between systems pre-dates sysplex.
3) You can do it anyway if you are careful - even without protection
mechanisms like reserve.
#3 is important because the IODF isn't one of those data sets getting
updated wily-nilly from anyone on any system. You know when you
are going to update it, it will only be done by a select few, and you are
not going to update the in-use IODF.
To the OP: Search the archives. This subject has come up many times
before.
What we do: We maintain IODFs from one sysplex. The HLQ is SYS1 and
they are in the master catalog. On all the other sysplexes / monoplexes
we use DEFINE RECATALOG so all of the IODFs we rotate between are
cataloged everywhere. This allows dynamic activate and maintaining
a single copy and not having to do any extra steps like export / import.
Mark
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