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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html