At 17:16 -0400 on 04/01/2009, Martin, Mike wrote about Maintaining
two identical ICF Catalogs:
All,
We have two systems that need to have identical ICF Catalogs (we are
implementing a tape grid and this catalog will contain tape entries).
These systems are in different SYSPLEXes and we can't share DASD between
them (partly because of GDPS) so a shared ICF Catalog isn't possible.
Is there a way to keep two ICF Catalogs on two different systems --
identical? (a small delay for being out-of-sync is ok) Of course,
integrity is critical.
Someone suggested "Use the SMF 60-type records: create Catalog
Define/Delete commands for the other site."
This brings to mind a real time synchronization method. If you have
an SMF Write exit monitoring the SMF60 records (on the machine that
is doing the catalog writes), the exit can pass them to the other
machine (via a VTAM AP-to-AP session for example) for the receiving
machine to use to update its catalog.
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