On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:44:19 +0000, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: >I would put forth one big reason for not sharing the master catalog, >would be system upgrades, when we went through the z/OS upgrades, >there were times where SYS1. Level data sets location changed from >one release to the next and the catalog needed to point to the new >location for the new release.
You can use system symbols for this. Define a symbol to represent the volser of every data set that was on volume X that is now on volume Y. Recatalog those data sets using the new symbol. When you IPL the new system, you will define the symbol to have a value of Y. When all the systems have been upgraded and you won't be going back, recatalog those data sets normally. Is it a better solution? YMMV. It worked for me way back in the days when we had multi-volume SYSRES sets and had to move things. Is anyone still using multi-volume sysres? >System Symbols are your friend when setting up the catalog, for both >data set names and VOLSER. Yes, they are. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
