On Wednesday, 07/29/2009 at 02:51 EDT, Dieltiens Geert 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> But in our development VM (with 3 busy VSE guests) I've always used MDC
> for the Dynam catalog MDISK and never had any problem with it.

Within a single z/VM system, MDC is fine as long as you use LINKs to a 
single MDISK.  But if you create separate MDISKs (without NOMDC) rather 
than using LINKs, I am told the system will create a separate cache for 
each MDISK and your data will be toast.

MDC must be turned off if you are sharing with other LPARs.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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