Re: z/OS 1.6 and CA-MIM Removal/Replacement

2005-09-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Sometimes DASD shared between sysplexes are dedicated for "data transport". In such case it is enough to define it as SHARED and rely on RESERVEs. ... Been there. Done that. Didn't like it! Don't want to do it again. It only happened intermittently, but always at a busy time. Catalogue/dataset

Re: z/OS 1.6 and CA-MIM Removal/Replacement

2005-09-03 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>CA will have reasons why MIM should be kept, but due to costs and how GRS is working very well now, I have no idea, outside of the job requeuing feature, why one would keep MIM. ... If you have a need to share DASD between two SYSPLEX's. -teD In God we Trust! All others bring data! -- W. Edwar

Re: z/OS 1.6 and CA-MIM Removal/Replacement

2005-09-03 Thread Pat Schlehuber
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:07:06 -0400, LUCAS, THOMAS E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With the recent z/OS 1.6 upgrades for SYSPLEX support, PPRC, GDPS and >VTS (Virtual Tape Support), has anyone been able to use this technology >infrastructure to remove and replace their existing copies of the >software

Re: z/OS 1.6 and CA-MIM Removal/Replacement

2005-09-02 Thread Conway, Steven F
CA-MIM still provides sharing of data (not PDSEs, though) across sysplex boundaries, which the IBM products do not. If you have multiple sysplexes sharing DASD, this is a show-stopper. Cheers,,,Steve Steve Conway Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703.921.6432 ---

Re: z/OS 1.6 and CA-MIM Removal/Replacement

2005-09-01 Thread John Ticic
-- snip -- With the recent z/OS 1.6 upgrades for SYSPLEX support, PPRC, GDPS and VTS (Virtual Tape Support), has anyone been able to use this technology infrastructure to remove and replace their existing copies of the software known as "CA-MIM" (Multi-Image-Manager)? If so, how did you justify thi

z/OS 1.6 and CA-MIM Removal/Replacement

2005-09-01 Thread LUCAS, THOMAS E
With the recent z/OS 1.6 upgrades for SYSPLEX support, PPRC, GDPS and VTS (Virtual Tape Support), has anyone been able to use this technology infrastructure to remove and replace their existing copies of the software known as "CA-MIM" (Multi-Image-Manager)? If so, how did you justify this type of p