Hi,
One cannot reliably assume that a sysplex name of "LOCAL" implies
that the system is not running in a multisystem sysplex. LOCAL is the name
of the sysplex that XCF supplies in the default COUPLE00 parmlib member
that would cause the system to come up in what is called XCF-LOCAL mode.
It would be confusing of course to do so, but there is nothing that
prevents an installation from using the name "LOCAL" for a sysplex that is
a true multisystem sysplex.
One could invoke IXCQUERY REQINFO=COUPLE with keywords LOCAL and
MONOPLEX to have fields set to indicate whether the system is running in
XCF-LOCAL mode or monoplex mode, respectively. If either field is nonzero,
you are running as a single system sysplex and an IPL would be needed for
the system to become part of a multi-system sysplex.
Mark A. Brooks
z/OS Sysplex design and development
845-435-5149 T/L 8-295-5149
Poughkeepsie, NY
[email protected]
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