On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:53:08 -0500, Doug Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:20:09 -0500, Eric Bielefeld <eric- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>we had a sysplex. I wondered why >>my ISPF profile dataset was different, and the other sysprog there explained >>to me about the enque, which for the profile DS is DISP=OLD. You have to >>write the logon exec or clist to take into account the system it is on, and >>allocate a name that's different on each system. > >One of the enhancements with z/OS 1.9 is " Users are able to share ISPF >profiles across different systems in the same sysplex". > > Yes, that is true. You must at least set PROFILE_SHARING=YES in the ISPF configuration table and you also have to remove the the customization for ISPF_TEMPORARY_DATA_SET_QUALIFIER that includes a system unique name if you enable this feature. See the "Profile Sharing" section in the ISPF Planning and Customization manual. BTW Ted, that section also talks about removing the SYSIKJUA propagation in GRS. Although I haven't really done much with it yet because I still have a mix of 1.8 and 1.9 systems in every plex (even my sandbox sysplex by default now, but I can IPL back and forth), I did enable it for myself on one system to see the data names generated etc. The problem with migrating to this new support in my environment would be deciding which ISPF profile to keep for any particular user since there is one per system. (Thinking out loud...) I would probably give users a clist / exec to copy one of their existing profiles to a new one without a SYSNAME qualifier in it and change the logon clist(s) to check for a profile without SYSNAME first and use that one if it existed. I would also have to change the logon clist(s) to start allocating new profiles without SYSNAME in it again. But I would probably only communicate this to IT people (programmers, operations) because any communications to other end users about this would probably just confuse them. Arghhh... The switch over to multiple profiles / logons was easy because that was done by me 10 years ago when I was consulting here along with a new userid naming standard. 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
