> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nofar Spalter > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 3:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: HFS sharing and rolling product upgrades > > Hello, > How do you gradually roll changes to CICS, MQ and DB2 > versions that change these products' HFS dataset one system at a time? > We currently share our BPXPRMxx member between two LPARs > running in Sysplex with SYSPLEX(YES). > Our CICS guys want to upgrade the CICS version one LPAR at a > time (a reasonable request), and that means that they want to > change the CICS HFS pointed to by the > /usr/lpp/cicsts/cicsts32 mount point, but only on one system. > In other words they want to do something like this: > > BPXPRMxx: > MOUNT FILESYSTEM('OMVS.&CICSVER.CICS32') > MOUNTPOINT('/usr/lpp/cicsts/cicsts32') > TYPE(HFS) MODE(READ) AUTOMOVE(INCLUDE,*) > > Where &CICSVER resolves to RSU1109 on SY1 LPAR and to RSU1110 > on SY2 LPAR. > > I don't think this is possible, but I do want to provide them > the option to roll the change one LPAR at a time, prefferably > without making changes to CICS. > > Is there a way where we can support that? > > Regards, > Nofar Spalter
Have you looked at & considered: "Mounting file systems using symbolic links"? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/bpxzb2b0/7.14 The commands to use would be something like: cd /usr/lpp/cicsts mkdir RSU1109 mkdir RSU1101 ln -s '$SYSSYMR/&CICSVER' cicsts32 Now, I don't use UNIX sysplex filesystem sharing, but I think you could do a mount similar to: MOUNT FILESYSTEM('OMVS.&CICSVER.CICS32') MOUNTPOINT('/usr/lpp/cicsts/&CICSVER.') TYPE(HFS) MODE(READ) AUTOMOVE(INCLUDE,*) Question: Is a period missing? Wouldn't you need 'OMVS.&CICSVER..CICS32' ??? Or was it a typo on your part? -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
