Hey there mate, As you already know my current customer's process, I will talk about a previous experience that applies to the scenario mentioned.
Customer had 3 Parallel Sysplexes: - SYSPLEX A w/ 4 LPARs (3 prod/1 test) => 3 production systems used shared SYS1.PARMLIB. Test system had its own PARMLIB concatenated before the "production"one where the majority of members were loaded from. However, some members were shared among all 4 systems; - SYSPLEX B w/ 6 LPARs (all prod) => they all shared the same PARMLIB with different sulfixes when needed; - SYSPLEX C w/ 4 LPARs (all test/dev) => they all shared the same PARMLIB with different sulfixes when needed; Each sysplex had its own members, no synch between PARMLIBs were done. In this case we didn't have shared DASD among the sysplexes, nor IBM-Cross Sysplex Manager, so member synch would pretty much be a manual task. I can't say this is the way I "prefer". It just had "always been like that" (yes, I hate this excuse!) and I didn't feel like changing at the time :). See ya, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Lucas Rosalen* Emails: rosalen.lu...@gmail.com / *lrosa...@pl.ibm.com <lrosa...@br.ibm.com>* LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/in/lrosalen Phone: +48 (71) 792 809 198 2017-02-17 17:00 GMT-02:00 Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com>: > One shop I was at we only had 2 parmlibs. One shipped by IBM and the other > maintained by the MVS group. > > The one maintained by the MVS Group managed 36 images and 16 plexes at the > time. So the suffixes were very important. > > XX all plexes > X1 Specific to LPAR1 in a plex > X2 Specific to LPAR2 in a plex > L1 Specific to sysplex L and LPAR1 in that plex > GX Specific to sysplex G but all lpars were using it. > > We has some very long concatenations in parmlib. ;-D > > All parmlib updates were done in rolled out with the SYSRES pack. We did > not update the PARMLIB on any lpar other than sandbox for testing. Then it > was a Sysres roll or chgman update that did the other plexes. > > Lizette > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
