A more pointed question.. do you need to share the usercat between plexes? REPRO/MERGECAT or one of the Catalog vendors can split the USERCAT. Seems like you would need a pretty good reason to attempt to continue to share.
Dave's right.. there are items in your share list that are not eligible for sharing. It wasn't clear if you are sharing those items between plexes today? I am assuming that you already have a single system that you can IPL outside of the current production plex. If not, I would start there and work through each item. Guidelines... If the item is XCF/XES or GRS dependent or PDSE, then sharing is probably bad. Read-only items are "usually" (such a grey area) a safe bet to share (within reason). Add another config to your IODF that has all production volumes offline at IPL (hopefully they are in nice easy ranges... but I am guessing not) On the RACF side.. are you planning to propagate security rules? If so.. there is more work to do.. if not, there is more work to do. I am guessing that your TSO users are going to be duplicated.. so it would mean some sort of cloning/segregation of data sets Change management.. always a fun one for considering splitting plexes Break/fix process? If the prod data has to be loaded into DEV for some reason... - just make sure you pick a some typical scenarios and logically follow them from beginning to end. Encryption keys that might be in ICSF? or RACF combined with ICSF? Did you cover tapes yet? Automation rules... Schedulers that use "sysplex services" to post events between dev and prod. There is a lot of "sharing" between systems prod and dev.. which is why it is easy to forget seemingly insignificant items from the list. Rob Schramm Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM < kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote: > Only if this volume is not under GDPS hiperswap. If it is, all reserves > must be converted. > > Kees. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Doug Henry > Sent: 17 February, 2015 16:24 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Parallel Sysplex split > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:26:14 +0000, Staller, Allan <allan.stal...@kbmg.com> > wrote: > > <snip> > <- There is some User Catalogs that are being shared between the > Development and Production environment > </snip> > > <You cannot share catalogs across a sysplex boundary! This will cause bad > things to happen. BTDTGTTS!. > <I presume (not using it) that ECS and RLS have the same limitation. > > Actually you can share a user catalog across sysplex boundary. We do this > for a low utilized catalog. > See II14297: CATALOG AND GRS CONFIGURATIONS. You will need to read it very > carefully. > This catalog volume is the only on that we do not convert reserves to > global enqueues. > > Doug > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ******************************************************** > For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: > http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain > confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If > you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or > any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other > action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may > be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the > sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. > > Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its > employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission > of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. > Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch > Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered > number 33014286 > ******************************************************** > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
