You can. I guess that is an advantage... very minimally though. Authorization to mount comes out of our tape product and its ESM rather than the config file so it changes very, very rarely (wait, shouldn't auth come from the ESM anyway and not its own private auth file :) . The device files update require you to recycle RMSMASTR anyway, so give him and r/o link and I can update it before the recyle anyway.
So the pain outweighs the advantage. Marcy -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 2:24 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] RMSMASTR and shutdowns On Friday, 06/24/2011 at 04:31 EDT, Marcy Cortes <marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: > Bleah.. and Yuck. > > NO NO NO. > > What's the point of putting 1 file in a SFS if you can't share it anyway??? > Put it on a minidisk. 1 cyl is fine. > And maybe when I have SSI , I can actually share it. > > It's 7 4k blocks of config data. Maybe IBM was trying to save me the other 96% > of a cylinder by putting it in SFS? The rest of the component is on minidisk... But you CAN update it while RMSMASTER is up, can you not? I am guessing that there was a requirement to be able to update the config file without bringing the server down. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott
