> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John Eells > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 1:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OS Master/User catalog dataset re-organization > > suresh chacko wrote: > > Hello Group, > > > > Like to know the best practices in z/OS Catalog dataset management and > > what all are the steps involved in z/OS catalog dataset re-organization > activity. > <snip> > > My view is this: > > The master catalog should "never" need to be reorganized. It's nearly static > compared to user catalogs, and if you have the right stuff in there all of it > should be cached anyway once the system is up and running. (See z/OS > DFSMS Managing Catalogs for the recommendations about the content of the > master catalog.) > > User catalogs should be reorganized, *if necessary*, one last time and then > enabled for CA Reclaim like (nearly) any other KSDS. After that, let them > manage themselves...
I did assume that 1. He was talking about a user catalog. And 2. He was asking because warnings or errors are occurring already. I didn't mention that the tool vendors will sometimes provide a free trial for such occasions. :) > > -- > John Eells > IBM Poughkeepsie > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
