You need one system with DIRMAINt and the two others with DIRMSAT. Note a pitfall that I remember from the 9221 days when I impleted it: one of the DIRMAINT's minidisks should never be linked by anyone, or the DIRMSAT workers won't run.
2008/4/10, Feller, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>>From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of David Boyes > > >>AFAIK, the DIRM satellite support is for CSE configurations, and you > need PVM to activate CSE completely. Did you set up CSE? > > > We have not seen anything in the manuals that says CSE is a requirement. > We sat through Jay Brenneman (IBM)'s SHARE presentation on CSE. > Coordinated Directory updates are a prereq for CSE not the other way > around. That's why we think we should be able to do this without CSE. > > > >>>From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Stracka, James (GTI) > > >>>It may have changed but I thought you needed PVM, not RSCS. > > > >>>Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation > > >>>Actually, I think the requirement is RSCS or shared spool. PVM is > required for CSE to implement its features, including shared spool. > > > The options according to the DIRMAINT File Tailoring and Configuration > guide are for RSCS or Shared Spool. We are running RSCS between all > three lpars. > > --------------------- > > What we are seeing is that we can get DIRMAINT and/or DIRMSAT to accept > commands and even act like they are performing updates but when we bring > DIRMAINT up in place of DIRMSAT the directory hasn't changed. > > > > Paul Feller > AIT Mainframe Technical Support > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (319)-355-7824 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of David Boyes > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:47 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > > Subject: Re: Question about DirMaint on z/VM 5.3 > > > We are trying to run DirMaint under z/VM 5.3 (RSU 0703) in a multi > lpar > > (IFL) setup. We can get DirMaint to properly do updates on one > system, > > but we can't get it to propagate the updates to the other two systems. > > We are trying to do this communicating with RSCS with no shared spool > or > > shared DASD. It was our impression from our reading of the manuals > that > > this type of setup should work. From what we can see there are no > error > > messages. > > AFAIK, the DIRM satellite support is for CSE configurations, and you > need PVM to activate CSE completely. Did you set up CSE? > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
