By using an entry in the SCOMDIR NAMES file, you can assign a real, unique, filepoolid to each server, but keep the name the users are used too. E.g;
:nick.oldpool :tpn.uniquepool But, it is then required that during an IPL CMS session, you use the same name to refer to the pool, either the unique one, either the old name. At my customer's installation we lived like that for about 20 years: each system had an SFSnn (real poolID), but it was normally referred to as SFSD: No problems whatsoever. 2009/5/6 Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com>: > On Tuesday, 05/05/2009 at 04:23 EDT, "Stricklin, Raymond J" > <raymond.j.strick...@boeing.com> wrote: > >> It seems like I should be able to make these filepools local only, but >> the documentation is pretty unequivocal that unless the repository >> filepool names begin with VMSYS that they are to be configured as global >> pools. >> >> Is there anything that is really stopping me from changing >> the IUCV *IDENT GLOBAL to IUCV *IDENT LOCAL for the two filepools on >> these three nodes, and then moving on? > > Yes. You will cause SFS server initialization failures (message > DMS3135E). Any filepool whose name does not begin with "VMSYS" will be a > global filepool. If you don't authorize the server to do the thing that > it has been configured to do, it will complain and die. By selecting a > name that doesn't begin with "VMSYS" you have instructed SFS to define the > filepool as global resource. > >> I ask because I notice that VMBACKUP owns a filepool that has IUCV >> *IDENT LOCAL set, with a name that does not begin with VMSYS. I haven't >> been able yet to learn anything about this particular pool, though, or >> how it's used, so I accept that it is possible for it to have some >> operational characteristic that makes this possible, where it wouldn't >> otherwise be generally. > > Whatever VMBACKUP owns, then, it isn't a filepool. Not all resource names > (QUERY RESOURCE) are SFS filepools. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
