Hello Lizette, This is for the system from where we perform the catalog resize. So for other systems how do we get the aliases pointing to their Master catalog ?
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]>wrote: > Reposting without the FILE: added > > > > 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: > //RESTORE JOB > //STEP EXEC PGM=CREWS > //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A > //RESTORE DD DSN=BACKUP.CATALOGS(-1),DISP=OLD > //SYSIN DD * > RESTORE > ALIAS > CAT(CATALOG.MVSICF1.VSYSC06) > > > Sorry for the File Insert. Do not know where that came from > > Lizette > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 6:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Catalog Rebuild JCL > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
