You can't IPL with the IPL datasets cataloged to &SYSR1, it fails if you try to set &SYSR1 to something in IEASYMxx. The same is true if you try to use a symbolic for the catalog volume(s) (assuming it's separate from the res volume(s)), but I think that issue is the ICF catalogs themselves. You can however catalog normal non-vsam datasets to any symbol you want so long as you identify it in the IEASYMxx member. I ALWAYS catalog ALL my DLIB and some VENDOR volumes that way, it makes life (and maintenance) a lot easier to be able to change the volsers.
(i.e. one of the sites I manage has their current IPL vols as is C23RS1 (which has every cataloged as ******) , C23RS2 ( which has everything cataloged to &SYSR2) and C23DL1 (which has everything cataloged to &SYSDL1) , C23DL2 (same format but &SYSDL2) and C23DL3 (same format but &SYSDL3), and the next one will be D23RS1, and D23RS2, D23DL1, D23DL2 and D23DL3. There is no re cataloging of datasets necessary, I just change the IEASYMxx member and everything is where it needs to be. My Backup SYSRES's are C23RSA and C23RSB and again, I just point the IPL to C23RSA and IEASYMxx is changed to point &SYSR2 to C23RSB and everything is set yo IPL and go. The names of the volumes themselves can be whatever I want to make them easy to remember in an emergency, they could be 111111 and 222222 and the process would be the same. It's very easy to do maintenance this way. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
