Still trying to understand your desired outcome. You do want to create a new master catalog, OK, but are you also trying to create new user catalogs connected to the new master, or are you trying to connect existing user catalogs to the new master? z/OSMF currently supports the former but not the latter. Or of course maybe you don't want any user catalogs at all. That's also fine.
Let's assume the target data set name for one of your zFS data sets is OMVS.ROOT.ZFS, and the temporary catalog alias for your new master catalog is ZOS25. When creating the workflow instances z/OSMF expects to find a data set alias ZOS25.OMVS.ROOT.ZFS, related to data set OMVS.ROOT.ZFS. (Sorry, zFS is VSAM, so not a data set alias, but a PATH.) So, if you create names and catalog entries like that, then Software Management should be able to find all the data sets and create the workflow instance. Check out the generated RENAME job for examples of how Software Management creates those names and catalog entries. Kurt Quackenbush IBM | z/OS SMP/E and z/OSMF Software Management | [email protected] Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 12:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF Portable Software Instance - Deployment Question Kurt, Our Shop standard dictates that a new master catalog is created with every z/OS upgrade. An additional standard clones new master catalogs from the new z/OS master catalog so that every lpar has its own new master catalog as the implementation rolls across the board. So, yes, I really want to create that new master catalog. What I want, in this case, doesn't matter. I used IEFBR14 to create the names that the configuration was expecting and still no joy. I am assuming z/OSMF's instance was aware that the source datasets were ZFS files and expected the targets to be the same. Is this assumption correct? If so, I'll try to get the SMS sheriff to modify the ACS routines this one time to allow for their creation as ZOS25.OMVS.*. That should enable the workflow instance creation to proceed, right? Bob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
