All, We are in the midst of rolling out pervasive encryption in our ZOS 2.5 customer environment. To get there of course we need to move to extended format datasets (sequential, VSAM, etc) which we have minimal exposure / experience with today (We have multiple 100K's of datasets in our catalogs across 4 LPAR's. We also will be leveraging hardware compression (ZEDC) as we migrate things as well towards path to pervasive encryption (PV) of course following best practice to compress before encrypting.
Have reviewed redbooks on PV, extended format, and hardware compression (experiences with hardware compression so far have been outstanding - especially in our DFDSS backup processing). What I'm looking for are any gotchas / lessons learned / real life experiences in embarking on this mass migration from basic format datasets over to extended compressed format DSN's and encryption that aren't documented in standard doc or redbooks. Or maybe you ran across or developed some tools to aid in such large scale migrations? If you have anything you'd like to share feel free to share it here or if prefer to talk offline contact me at sest...@gmail.com. Thanks in advance for sharing. Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
