On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:42:17 -0500, Bobbie Jo <[email protected]> wrote:
>">However the disadvantage above is important for "system" filesystems. >> Container for downloads is not one of them, but it also could happen you >> want to switch it from one system to another. > >two words - Shared zFS, works just fine and happy > >I don't quite understand the catalog concern. Are you in sysplex ? > Search the archives for posts from me. I do share "sysres zFS" along with my sysres set across sysplex boundaries. I use the SYS1 "trick" so I can catalog them multiple master catalogs. I don't really like it, but I would need at least 4 more sets of sysres sets (due to some monoplex LPARs and a small sysplex environment) that I share with. I currently have 6 sysres sets of 3 3390-9 volumes - 1 mvs, 1 zFS (formerly HFS), 1 ISV. I need 6 sets to support multiple releases during OS migrations and rolling IPLs. At any given time there are usually 2 in use for a given OS version and the 3rd one is needed for the next roll out. So if I didn't share, that would be 24 (6*4) more 3390-9 volumes just to support the "dinky" LPARs. DASD is "cheap", but I still can't justify that when sharing "read only" has worked fine "forever". Since I am able to do this, even with zFS, I consider the lack of ability to indirectly catalog my sysres zFS a minor annoyance. The "DEFINE RECATALOG" is a one time thing for each OS release / sysres set on all but the sysplex where we do the cloning from. 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
