I haven't used IBM's volsers for my production volumes since VM/370 Rel 6 . When we went with BSEP, I insisted that we separate maintenance from production. My boss let me install BSEP in a second-level virtual machine
with our production volsers being OUR volsers and I have NEVER gone back. /Tom Kern On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:26:25 -0500, Quay, Jonathan (IHG) <[email protected]> wrote: >Which leads to a couple of questions. First, when did IBM start >supporting RES packs with volsers other than the standard ones as >delivered? I seem to remember warnings about not changing them, but may >have missed when that became ok. Second, if one's intent is to run >nearly identical "cloned" VM images across some number of LPARS on some >number of CECs, would there be a simple way to do this from one Master >read-only RES pack containing various CPLOAD modules and system >configuration files, sort of like our z/OS brethren do? >
