Hi John, I have seen and used the ServerPac resources you mentioned and found them very helpful and useful.
What about the majority who do not have access to ServerPac? With role based security these days, many, perhaps most, do not have access. Thanks, Linda Sent from my iPhone On Dec 1, 2014, at 8:22 AM, John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > First, I can't resist saying that as it seems to have taken a full decade for > members of this group to perceive a significant lack, it seems the decision > to drop the book was a good one! > > That aside, the vast majority of customers install z/OS using ServerPac. > > ServerPac, in turn, provides far more information about data set allocation > and data set requirements than System Data Set Definition ever did, and does > so for other products' data sets that were never described by that book in > the first place. It even does it in a way that allows you to generate and > save lists of "interesting" data sets, including those required or eligible > for LPA, link list, and APF. Samples to allocate them all can be extracted > from the ALLOCDS job you saved in the SCPPBENU data set (you did do that, > right?) or can re-generate if needed, and they are kept 100% current with > product content and tested every time a new product is added to the ServerPac > ordering checklist. > > For z/OS itself, the z/OS Program Directory includes detailed information > about data set attributes and sizes required for installation. The other > data sets needed to run the system are, for the most part*, documented in > various books, as should be true for other products you might have (such as > DB2, CICS, and IMS). > > That the allocation information for the STGINDEX data set happens not to be > documented was an unfortunate oversight. I've already asked someone to fix > that. > > * I'd have said "all," once, but since we know we missed one, I won't. > > -- > John Eells (back from a week off) > z/OS Technical Marketing > IBM Poughkeepsie > ee...@us.ibm.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
