On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:10:42 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:
>The previous question about MIM Integrity made me think that asking another >question might be possible. We also use MIM Integrity. However, not for its >main function (cross system ENQs). We use GRS on our sysplex for ENQ >propogation. What we actually use is the EDIF functionality. This basically >stops the programmers from doing a LINKEDIT into a source library. They used >to do this with distressing regularity (less now since we use Endevor). >IIRC, the current BINDER no longer allows this, correct? > >The other function is ECMF. This is what monitors the "DATASET IN USE" and >if it remains for a while, will $E, $H, $C the job in order to free up the >initiator. > >Is there something within z/OS (free) which can replace ECMF and EDIF >functionality? I'm all for saving money. > There is a GRS monitor that will send messages about ENQed data sets, but it is poor compared to what MIM does. Nothing that will requeue jobs and release them automatically like MIM that I know of. In z/OS 1.9 the binder prevents writes to a PDS that is not RECFM=U unless explicitly overridden. This was done for PDSE only prior to z/OS 1.9. Since z/OS 1.5, there is IFGEDI - EXTENDED DATA INTEGRITY which protects PS data sets accessed via DISP=SHR. Search the archives for more info on all of the above. Oh... there is this (mostly worthless IMO) tech doc too. http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/TD103317 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
