You're incorrect, you don't need a coupling facility to share PDS/e, you can (and I do at several sites) use FICON CTC's just as well, and in fact it's a lot cheaper, (unless you already have a coupling facility installed in which case it would be silly to not use it).
IBM does not require a CF to share PDS/e all the way down to the member level. Wherever you got the information you posted, it's incorrect or at best misleading. I maintain several sites that have no coupling facility and sysplex sharing is no problem. It's not a "complete" sysplex, but I think people tend to refer to it as a "baby" sysplex. GRS ring is not a problem, and you get a lot of the benefits of sysplex (shared consoles, command shipping, etc.) you just don't have the CF to handle it, instead you use the FICON Cards as CTC's If you don't have the $$s to spend on a CF, buying a couple FICON cards from a reseller (or even eBay) is a very inexpensive way to achieve GRS support (and thus PDS/e sharing). Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
