On Sun, 20 May 2007 09:33:04 -0400 Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>Those datasets are related to the GLOBAL zone and not the TLIB or DLIB. So :>yes they are shared. And yes all your different TLIB and DLIB zones can :>point to those datasets from your one global zone. In otherwords, they are :>used during the RECEIVE Process for any product. Then when you APPLY or :>ACCEPT that TLIB or DLIB will use the data set you had specificed during :>UCLIN. False. You definitely do not want to share SMPMTS between different versions of the same product. Or SMPLTS. SMPPTS should be OK. I would have to look up the others. :>You just have to make sure that the products that are received have :>uniqueness about them so that one product does not have an entry called ZAP :>that also belongs to a different product under the same SREL/diff FMIDs. :>But you would see that in a RECEIVE. :>In one shop I worked at we had one Global zone for all MVS related products :>(FILE AID for MVS, STROBE, DTS Software, and so on). The IMS Group had :>their on global, DB2 their own Global. But everything else when into the :>MVS zone. Then we had multiple Tlibs and Dlibs for each product. Anything :>that belonged to MVS resided in the MVST or MVSD libs (MVST.JES2.whatever or :>MVSD.JES2.whatever) and anything else went into the PPRDT or PPRDD libs :>(PPRDT.vendor.product.whatever or PPRDD.vendor.product.whatever). :>My preference would always be one massive Global zone and multiple TLIBS and :>DLIBS. Makes figuring out what is going with maintanence rather than trying :>to track down the individual zones. :>> I have a CSI dataset with many different target and dlib zones defined for :>> different products and different versions of those products. :>> Can the following datasets be shared between all the zones? :>> SMPPTS, SMPLTS, SMPMTS, SMPSDS, SMPSCDS :>> Specifically, I'm dealing with a skeleton JCL job that allocates the SMPE :>> datasets and contains sample UCLIN and ADD DDDEF statements but the :>> sample only gives an example of a CSI with one DLIB and TARGET zone. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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