Sounds like a bad idea to me. You can't guarantee the integrity of the user catalogues.
Can you set up the external systems as NJE nodes and get them to submit jobs to your sysplex instead? Ant. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Rob Schramm Sent: Thursday, 9 April 2020 9:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Opinions/experience on sharing catalogs outside plex I am considering sharing some usercats outside of a sysplex. What I can find is that sysiggv2 must be kept as a reserve to do so. Looking for others that have had to do this. One question I had was, what happens on a ispf 3.4 when the data set is part of the catalog but exists in another system? Ief238d? Thanks, Rob Schramm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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