For all of our system specific directories we use a structure like this so that we can have separate physical files but only one directory in the JCL or in the configuration files.
In the system root we have a symbolic link, in this case '/pfa' that points to '/$SYSNAME/pfa'. Then in each system specific directory (/SYS1.../SYS2) we have a mountpoint for the product where we mount a separate zFS (/SYS1/pfa ... /SYS2/pfa). We can also have subdirectories under these for each upgrade of the product. We have found this method to be extremely flexible. It allows us to upgrade by only having to change the symbolic link to point to the subdirectory that has the current upgrade (/$SYSNAME/pfa/V1R1 ... /$sYSNAME/pfa/V1R2 ...etc) Jon L. Veilleux veilleu...@aetna.com (860) 636-9179 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/os V1.11 PFAPATH On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:17:45 -0500, Mark Steely <mark.ste...@wnco.com> wrote: >During installation of z/os V1.11 it needs a directory of pfapath. >Where did you create this directory (root or create it own file directory ?). Thank You Someone just asked this a few weeks ago. This was my response (the archives and Google are your friends): I'm sure it can be changed later, but I pointed it to a local directory where we install software: PFA PFA OWNER USERID D PFAUSER PFA STG LOCATION D /mylcldir/pfapath PFA USER PASSWORD D http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1002&L=ibm-main&D=1&T=0&O=D&P=241223 And mount a file system there. But I would think you could also have one automounted at /u/pfauser depending on how you set it up. I have not played with it yet. I thought there was some stuff in the bit bucket from SHARE in Denver from Sam Knutson who had it set up. I was waiting for him to respond last time. Maybe he'll let us know what he did (or someone else will). I just asked one of my co-workers to start setting it up last week, so I'll probably have something to share soon also. -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:mzel...@flash.net Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
