Re: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes

2017-02-19 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM
ame Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mike Cairns > Sent: 17 February, 2017 16:24 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes > > Hi all - it's been a long time since I posted a question here, look

Re: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes

2017-02-17 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
TCPIP, JES, SA, etc). And then there's Omegamon... Who knows what's what there... Bart -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Cairns Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes

2017-02-17 Thread Lucas Rosalen
Hey there mate, As you already know my current customer's process, I will talk about a previous experience that applies to the scenario mentioned. Customer had 3 Parallel Sysplexes: - SYSPLEX A w/ 4 LPARs (3 prod/1 test) => 3 production systems used shared SYS1.PARMLIB. Test system had its own PA

Re: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes

2017-02-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
One shop I was at we only had 2 parmlibs. One shipped by IBM and the other maintained by the MVS group. The one maintained by the MVS Group managed 36 images and 16 plexes at the time. So the suffixes were very important. XX all plexes X1 Specific to LPAR1 in a plex X2 Specific to LPAR2

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes

2017-02-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
bruary 17, 2017 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes We have a Sandbox system in it's own sysplex and a primary sysplex with two LPARS. Each LPAR has it's own SYS1.PARMLIB, it used to share and they used the LPAR # as part of

Re: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes

2017-02-17 Thread Nims,Alva John (Al)
98 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Cairns Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes Hi all - it's been a long time since I p

Re: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes

2017-02-17 Thread Carmen Vitullo
only one sysplex here sorry, but almost the same setup as Allan SYS1.plexname.PARMLIB - for all members, common and LPAR specific using &SYSCLONE members for each lpar part of migration - user modified parms of IBM's parms SYS1.PARMLIB - EMPTY on the SYSRES automatically concatinated at IPL time

Re: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes

2017-02-17 Thread Allan Staller
SYS1.LPAR.PARMLIB (unique to this LPAR in plex. Never moves). SYS1.PARMLIB (common to all LPARS in plex. Never moves). SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB (on sysres for all LPARS in plex. Changes w/IBM maint. Always moves) Synchronization/promotion between Plexes is an exercise in change control.

Re: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes

2017-02-17 Thread Grinsell, Don
Behalf Of Mike Cairns > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 8:24 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes > > Hi all - it's been a long time since I posted a question here, looking > forward to > hearing from you all. > > Qu

maintaining PARMLIBs over several sysplexes

2017-02-17 Thread Mike Cairns
Hi all - it's been a long time since I posted a question here, looking forward to hearing from you all. Question about your local policy/practice: When faced with the task of maintaining multiple PARMLIBS over a few related sysplexes (sandpit, development, production), do you: Prefer to try an