File access across different centers .

Saroj Tripathy · New User Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: India

Hi I have a requirement to store a file in such a way that it can be accessed by jobs in another center. i.e i create the file using a job is TSO20 region and i want to access it from TSO30 region. I have heard that we can use virtual disk to do so ?? can anybody point me in the right direction ?

Thanks,
Saroj

expat · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:10 pm

Don't you mean shared disks ?

Saroj Tripathy · New User Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: India

well i exactly don't know much about what the concept is behind this ...

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:42 pm

why not speak with Your storage support??

very little that we can do, we do not know anything about Your shop setup

Saroj Tripathy · New User Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: India

if you know any process to do this i would like to know. anything that u do at your shop ? we have z/os and sms installed in our shop. at present we transfer files from one center to other using "intercenter equalization(ICE) tool"

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:06 am

Hello,

Suggest you talk with your dasd storage management people. They can tell you how to make files available to multiple systems in your environment.

This is often done using some sort of shared dasd.

Saroj Tripathy · New User Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: India

Hi All,

I talked with my DASD admin team and understood that by using a few specific volumes for file storage we can access it across centers.

for example VOL=ALL001,VOL=ALL002 and so on volume names allows access across centers in my mainframe shop.

thanks.

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:18 pm

You're welcome - thank you for letting us know you have a solution

d