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
>
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