Todd Burrell wrote: >I had a co-worker ask me today why we have all of our master catalogs as user >cats on the other systems in the sysplex?
Do you mean each LPAR has its own Master Catalog? And each of these Master Catalogs are defined as User Catalog in other LPARs? >Besides convenience I really had no answer as to why we had it setup this way? > I've just always done it this way, but besides convenience of listing and >updating catalogs from other systems is there really any reason for this? One convenience is you can isolate each LPARs using naming standards unique to that LPAR. But, what will you do if you need to access a dataset 'outside' your LPAR where you're working on? >And what are best practices? And if GRS and share options are setup properly, >is there really any risk to setting things up this way? We have one Master Catalog per Sysplex. Very practical, because you have fewer ALIASes to worry about and you have one consistent naming standards across the Sysplex. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
