Re: ICF Catalogs on SMS managed volumes

Why? At the point of connecting the Ucat to the Mcat the Ucat already exists. SMS is not intercepting any allocation.

To answer Sam's question, the system I inherited has all of it's Ucats on non-SMS volumes and I saw no reason to change it. For DR, as long as the Ucats get backed up along with the datasets they control, SMS or Non-SMS shouldn't matter.

Matthew wrote:

I would think the need to specify the volser the catalog resides on could be
problematic while connecting a catalog to a master.

On Sat, 31 May 2008 00:42:52 +1000, Shane Ginnane <ibm-main@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Quoting "Knutson, Sam"

Our storage team is considering no longer allocating ICF USER
catalogs on dedicated non-SMS volumes moving them into our SMS pool for
system data sets.

There is some debate here about this here. Do you do this? Do you
prevent DFHSM from doing backup and migration on ICF catalogs using
management class?

My DASD folks and I have a "symbiotic" relationship.
Everything I want as non-SMS goes on non-SMS volumes - resvols, spool,
[m|u]cats, page, sadmp, ...
Other "system" stuff is in a (SMS) system pool. That's the end of my
interference in their lives.

They do their job, I do mine. Works well.
They probably know it would not be beneficial to stir the pot.

Shane ...




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