On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 11:57:06 +0530, venkat kulkarni <[email protected]> wrote:
>We have requirement from customer to have EAV volumes on z/OS 1.12 systems. > >Below are the step, I followed for this configuration. > >*a) Software requirements:* Extended address volumes require z/OS V1R10. > >*b) Hardware requirements:* A Licensed interal code (LIC) upgrade to an IBM >DS8000 is needed so that an EAV can be configured in the storage subsystem. >*c) *Allow SMS to select extended address volumes during its volume >selection processing. Set the USEEAV parameter in the IGDSMS*xx* PARMLIB >member to YES: USEEAV(YES). > >d) In the IGDSMS*xx* PARMLIB member, specify an optional break point value >for SMS to use when making volume selection decisions for VSAM data sets. >On the BreakPointValue parameter, specify a number of cylinders (0-65520). > > >Do we have any other steps, which I am missing before I use these EAV >volumes like, any thing has to be done on IODF side or something else. > One must also consider potential ISV software product impact and locally-developed program/application compatibililty. Suggest reviewing/deploying the IBM EAV Migration Assistant Tracker utility to help identify non-compliant programs, available on IBM.COM website -- then you will want to track/identify program-compliance and progress going forward. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
