On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:47:03 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:29:15 -0500, John C. Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>There used to be an IBM manual about placement of system daya sets in MVS. >>It also told what system data sets could be shared and not shared. >>Does any one knoe what that manual is now or where I can find such >>information? >> > >The planning manual for your release has a suggested system layout. There >used to be a "MVS System Data Set Definition" but that went away in >z/OS 1.7. I don't think anything replaced it but all the information in >there is probably in mixture of other manuals. > >>We just installed z/OS 1.9 and are sharing the logrec data set between three >>LPARS and I am not sure if this is ok. >> > >Unless you are talking about a CF logstream, then answer is NO, it is not >ok. Each LPAR needs their own SYS1.LOGREC (or whatever you are >calling it). > >Where is that documented now? The best I could find is in the diagnosis >manual with a little reading between the lines (note the word individual): > >"an installation can use a logrec data set, associated with an individual >system, to record error records." > The next paragraph spells it out more clearly. "In a sysplex, however, because each system requires its own logrec data set, you might need to look at each logrec data set when an error occurs." Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
