Jake, Have you contacted CA Support for CREWS. Any product I have seen that does CATALOG has support for your functions. That includes TREX and Catalog Recovery Plus
So, a quick search on the CA Website provided Question: Looking for example of a restore on a catalog and its aliases? Answer: Here is an example of a restore for one catalog and its aliases: file://RESTORE JOB file://STEP EXEC PGM=CREWS file://SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A file://RESTORE DD DSN=BACKUP.CATALOGS(-1),DISP=OLD file://SYSIN DD * RESTORE ALIAS CAT(CATALOG.MVSICF1.VSYSC06) Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jake anderson Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 6:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Catalog Rebuild JCL I agree the aliases do Point to Master catalog. Here I do not use IDCAMS but I use CA CREW for catalog Resize. So for other system I have to perform a Redefine of aliases and Yes in our plex we have master catalog defined for each system and Usercatalogs are shared across the system. So for defining an alias I must be generating a IDCAMS control card using where I mention like : DEF ALIAS(NAME('ALIASNAME') REL('USERCATALOG) , so if I run this JCL on each system then the mastercatalog parameter is not required. So Just looking for a rexx exec which can extract the list from a PS file(where only alias name is present) and prepare a control card for IDCAMS. On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Hervey Martinez < [email protected]> wrote: > Jake, > > The alias' are in the master catalog not in the user catalog. If you > have multiple master catalogs, then the user cat needs to be detached > from the other masters before you do the resize and after the re-org; > then, it has to be re-connected back to those same masters. > > Regards, > > Hervey > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jake anderson > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 8:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Catalog Rebuild JCL > > Hello, > > I am in the process of re-sizing a user catalog and I see there are > almost > 2000+ aliases defined to it. This is for one of our plex where we have > 2000+ 4 > systems and I understand during restore the aliases will be too > restored on the system where I am running the JCL(for catalog resize). > For other System I have to prepare a define alias JCL for 2000+ aliases. > > I am looking for some REXX which can help me in extracting the aliases > and prepare control card to re-define the same aliases pointing to > the Usercatalog. > > Could someone point me to some sample Rexx which can help me ? > > Jake ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
