Thanks all for your opinions and great suggestions. The environment is like Intended usercat is connected to all the Mastercatalog. So after the CATALOG rebuild, a F CATALOG,RESTART would be a good choice to refresh the entries ?
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com>wrote: > On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:05:27 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > > >I do not have a way of listing the APAR so I do not know what it says > >to do. > > Really? GIYF > http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&cad=b&fp=1&q=II13354 > > > >If I wanted to ALIAS entries to point at a new name, just > >delete and then define them. > > I think you;d find that all of the VSAM data sets in that catalog were > broken after you did that. The catalog information for a data set is > not stored entirely in the BCS. Some of it is in the VVDS. And the > VVDS entry (at least for VSAM) contains the name of the catalog that > the data set is cataloged in. > > > >OTOH, as has been pointed out, just > >deleting and redefining (using the same name) the usercat (my > >backup/restore method) would also work. > > It would almost work, but not quite. > > >As I stated, there does > >however the method, need to be some way to freeze the contents of the > >usercat while you either redefine or replace it. > > Yes, it is important to prevent all accesses to the catalog by other > users during the process. The APAR describes how to use LOCK for > that. You are not doing anyone a service by providing an overly > simplified procedure that omits the critical information of how to do > it as an alternative to the procedure to do it correctly. > > Just my opinion. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
