On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:15:27 -0400, Jousma, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mark, > >I'm not sure the define/recatalog's will work with the zFS's. At least >I was not able to get it to work. It does work, I even tested it to make sure. They key is the HLQ of SYS1. I said that in my post but I should have explained why. That's what happens when you start rambling. There is special code in DFSMS to allow SYS1 (and PAGE) to be cataloged in multiple catalogs. > I clone/promote the code from my >maintenance zones to tech -> tech to dev -> dev to prod -> using logical >copies for all datasets EXCEPT zfs's. Since we have a separate >mastercat structure for tech/dev/prod and my OMVS HLQ is in the >mastercat, OMVS HLQ... that is the recatalog issue. Change to SYS1.OMVS and it will work. >I use DFDss to DUMP the zFS on the ZFS owning system, and >restore the ZFS on the target system. In fact, since we run our >serverpac provided zfs's read-only, I leave the dumped zfs images on my >sysres so that the promotion to the next environment (say dev to prod), >only required a DSS restore(with rename for the sysres qualifier). >This process has worked very well for me. Similar to what we did prior to non-SMS HFS. > To clone, I run just 5 jobs - >1 clip the target volume, and reload IPLtext, 2 - logical dataset copy, >excluding OMVS, & SMPE, 3 - restore OMVS zfs's, 4 create target csi for >new target sysres & zonecopy, 5 - logical copy/rename all SMPE target >zone support datasets(sts, mcs, log, etc). All of which run >concurrently in about 15 minutes. BTW, I run a single mod-27 for each >sysres. > I do it all in one jobstream. A job similar to what I currently do is on my web site in the JOBS/DOC section (CLONERES). Since I volume copy my primary sysres with FDR, I don't have to worry about IPLTEXT. I only rebuild it on the maintenance sysres when a PTF requires it. As far as mod 27, we were just talking about it for 1.8 but it is too big of a waste. I'm only using slightly over a mod-9 (I just had to go to a second mod-9 sysres for HFS when I installed XML toolkit under z/OS 1.6). Under 1.8 I have a few extra HFSes - PLI, COBOL, Netview - in addition to the ones I had for 1.6 (ROOT, TSM, and XML). The only way I would consider mod-27 is if we also put our ISV sysres on it (we roll out ISV maintenance / software as part of the sysres set). But I really don't want to put them on the same volume because sometimes we clone the IBM sysres or ISV sysres from a running version instead of the maintenance version. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ 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
