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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 18, 2019

Disk sharing between two TARGET ZDT.

The goal is to share, outside the sysplex mechanism, disks between two targets.
The goal is to make available files on a TARGET for other TARGET.
A TARGET is in update and the others are in reading.
File sharing between host linux is done through NFS.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    May 31, 2019

    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. The latest zPDT already supports this feature. Section 10.4 of the zPDT Reference Guide indicates the requirements and Section 3.3.1 discusses the shared option and outlines some warnings and considerations: (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248205.pdf).
    It is recommend that you only setup the specific disk(s) that you want to share in the group controller's devmap and put all other disks into the separate devmap for the instance (not shared).
    If there are any additional requests, please let us know.

  • Guest
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    Mar 20, 2019

    In certain cases and under a certain delay the synchronization ends up being done
    Cepndant we can not identify the trigger element