Then the person doing the update better specify OLD or MOD.  No one but
the BINDER (or a program with the equivalent ability to update the
enqueue) should ever be updating a shared dataset

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted MacNEIL 
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:45 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: DASD: to share or not to share

>You just need to be sure that GRS is setup to convert hardware reserves
to enqueues

Yes!

>and have everyone use DISP=SHR unless they really need to update the
dataset.

Disagree!
Too generic.

This one has nothing to do with shared DASD!
It is also an issue within a single system.

What if you want a consistant copy with no updates while you are
reading?

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