I don’t understand the need to go to a new master cat?

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Steve Estle <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ZOS SMS Datasets Migration?

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Thanks for responding.

After internal discussions and working with IBM SMS support, we've chosen to 
rebuild ACDS, SCDS, COMMDS into user catalog - defined a new HLQ called DFSMS.  
As long as you are not doing any catalog RLS support says that is fine (we are 
not).  We then are seeding the new DFSMS SCDS using ISMF panels and then we'll 
come up with null config and once up on ZOS 2.5 will activate the new SCDS into 
the ACDS.  Of course, IGDSMSxx must point at proper new datasets, but in 
general for those running monoplex ZOS seems the best way to go is get SMS 
control datasets out of the master catalog where possible makeing future 
migrations easier.

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