I agree with Skip - the risk in pulling apart a Sysplex is high, where to stand up a new stand-alone system will ensure the isolation required. I'd build a new system and move the work as needed to it.
Jerry Whitteridge Delivery Manager / Mainframe Architect GTS - Safeway Account 602 527 4871 Mobile [email protected] IBM Services IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 08/29/2018 02:14:37 PM: > From: Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 08/29/2018 02:15 PM > Subject: Re: Un-Sysplex a zOS System > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > The issues listed in the original post plus those suggested by > others are potentially *very* serious. I have to ask what benefits > are expected that would justify the risk. Surely sysplex overhead > alone would not be worth damaging a catalog for example. Whose idea is this? > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected] > ] On Behalf Of Scott Barry > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 1:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: (External):Re: Un-Sysplex a zOS System > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:57:14 -0400, Mark Jacobs - Listserv > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >We're in a parallel sysplex, sharing most everything, and need to > begin planning activities to remove one system from the sysplex, > while continuing to use it to run a subset of our current workload. > > > >Some of the things we need to consider are; > > > > * PDS/e Sharing > > * Catalogs (we're ECS shared now) > > * Shared DASD > > * RACF Database Sharing (Sysplex Enabled) > > * JES2 Checkpoint in CF > > * ZFS File Systems? (This system is not in a shared OMVS Environment) > > > >I'd like people to shoot things at me that I might have missed > while I keep on looking myself. > > > >TIA, > > > >Mark Jacobs > >Time Customer Service > > > Could be a consideration to review/verify - software (contractual > language) licensing, also previous-condition with "shared" system > dependency, then no longer accessible after un-Sysplex? > > Scott Barry > SBBWorks, Inc. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
