Re: Doubt about Server Pac and Catalogs

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:58:43 -0500, Jousma, David <David.Jousma@xxxxxx> wrote:

I'm just the opposite. The finished state for my systems, is to have
no SMPE TARGET's or DLIB's cataloged at all. It would be nice if
Serverpack didn't require the targets to be cataloged as part of the
allocds/RESTORE job(with the exception of HFS/ZFS). The dialogs know
what volumes they are being allocted to when restoring them all. It
just seems easier because then there really is no use for the SSA's as
far as I can tell. Every serverpac I do, I setup the dialogs with the
names I want, but then before I run the alloc job, I modify the
jobstream and change the target datasets. I do the same in the restore
job, and when completed, uncatalog, and rename all the datasets to what
I wanted in the first place. If the restore job just had a vol=ser
reference in the dd statements, I wouldn't even have to do that.


That won't work for HFS/zFS since you can't mount by VOLSER. Also a
problem for SMS managed DSNs since they have to be cataloged.

When you say no SMP/E targets are cataloged, do you mean they are
a different name than the "live" cataloged versions? My SMP/E targets
aren't cataloged either in that sense. They have the same name but
are referenced via DDDEF with VOLSER. That is why I am able to
"throw away" the CPAC master catalog after DSNs have been renamed
to remove the SSA (and DDDEFs have been updated via supplied job).

Mark
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