> I feel insulted by the tone of your comments. Me too! I used to appreciate Timothy's posts for their precision. However, in this case he seems to have a need to be perceived as right, even if he's not.
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:22:00 -0500 > From: 0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu > Subject: Re: JES2 as primary with JES3 as a secondary > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:21:35 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: > > >The references I cited in my previous post are documentation elaborations. > >Nothing more, nothing less. IBM did not (generally) recommend multiple JES3 > >globals in a single Sysplex > > Right. And they still don't, for many reasons. > > >(which can consist of a single LPAR or not), > > Strictly speaking, a Sysplex can be a single LPAR, but that is not relevant. > > >"IBM recommends a one-to-one relationship between the JES3 complex and the > >Sysplex for ease of operations. If you do need to set up multiple global > >systems within the same Sysplex, the following considerations apply...." > > Right. There can be more than one JES3 Global in a Sysplex, resulting in more > than one JESplex. That does not mean that an LPAR can have more than one > JES3 subsystem. > > > >One ought to assign meaning and > >significance to every word, at least as a starting point. > > and not read something into the words that is not there. > > >Especially when > >the recommendation was preceded by the words "it is possible." > > Nowhere does it say that "It is possible" to run two JES3 subsystems on the > same LPAR. > > >I'm not sure why the previous language (apparently, by some) was misread > >and misinterpreted. It certainly shouldn't have been. The previous language > >was perfectly clear. > > The language is clear, and you have misread it to say that more than one > JES3 subsystem can exist within an LPAR. I feel insulted by the tone of your > comments. > > >http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg244582.pdf > > > >Section 8.12 reiterates exactly the same JES3 recommendation...and then > >proceeds to provide instructions on how to violate IBM's > >recommendation. :-) There's even a diagram of that multiple global (and > >local) scenario, Figure 55. > > You have misread that diagram. The boxes illustrate processors (or LPARS), > each of which has exactly one JES3 subsystem. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
