A Practical Guide to ICF Catalogs

A Practical Guide to ICF Catalogs

by Keith Winnard, Jose Gilberto Biondo Jr, Gert Laumann, Norbert Schlumberger, Jeanne Vangsness, Chao Xing CX Ma
Released June 2015
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738440682

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication gives a broad understanding of integrated catalog facility (ICF) catalog environments. It includes suggestions for design, planning, and deployment activities to help you create and maintain a balanced and efficient catalog environment.

Four scenarios are provided to illustrate sample implementations of typical activities associated with an organization's requirements.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. IBM Redbooks promotions
  4. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  5. Chapter 1. Technical overview
    1. 1.1 Introduction to the ICF catalog environment
    2. 1.2 Catalogs and data sets
    3. 1.3 ICF catalog-related components
      1. 1.3.1 Catalog address space
      2. 1.3.2 Master catalog
      3. 1.3.3 User catalogs
      4. 1.3.4 VTOC
      5. 1.3.5 VTOC index
      6. 1.3.6 VVDS
      7. 1.3.7 In Storage Cache
      8. 1.3.8 Catalog data space cache
      9. 1.3.9 Enhanced Catalog Sharing
      10. 1.3.10 SMSVSAM and Record Level Sharing
      11. 1.3.11 Catalog parmlib
      12. 1.3.12 ICF catalogs and tapes
    4. 1.4 Catalog scenarios
      1. 1.4.1 Scenario 1: Single master catalog with multiple user catalogs
      2. 1.4.2 Scenario 2: Start new LPAR sharing the same master catalog
      3. 1.4.3 Scenario 3: Split master catalog into two systems
      4. 1.4.4 Scenario 4: System consolidation
    5. 1.5 Reporting
      1. 1.5.1 What types of reporting are available?
    6. 1.6 The need for reviews
  6. Chapter 2. Planning integrated catalog facility catalog environments
    1. 2.1 The plan
      1. 2.1.1 Why plans are necessary
      2. 2.1.2 What to expect in a technical plan
      3. 2.1.3 Effect on other areas
    2. 2.2 Understanding catalog search
    3. 2.3 Specifications
      1. 2.3.1 Technical restrictions
      2. 2.3.2 Estimating catalog size
      3. 2.3.3 Setting the control interval and control area size of a catalog
    4. 2.4 Planning considerations
      1. 2.4.1 Integrity
      2. 2.4.2 Availability
      3. 2.4.3 Security
      4. 2.4.4 Operations
      5. 2.4.5 Documentation
      6. 2.4.6 ICF catalog performance
      7. 2.4.7 Storage management subsystem
      8. 2.4.8 Features including parmlibs and caching considerations
      9. 2.4.9 System software considerations
      10. 2.4.10 Testing environments
    5. 2.5 Housekeeping
    6. 2.6 Reporting
    7. 2.7 Monitoring and automation
      1. 2.7.1 Catalog contention detection
      2. 2.7.2 CA RECLAIM of VSAM KSDS data sets
      3. 2.7.3 Notify extents
      4. 2.7.4 Health checks done by IBM Health Checker for z/OS
    8. 2.8 Suggested practices summary
  7. Chapter 3. Deploying ICF catalogs
    1. 3.1 About the deployment
    2. 3.2 Scenario 1: Simple ICF catalog environment structure
      1. 3.2.1 Scenario 1 Target Environment
      2. 3.2.2 Scenario 1: Task list
      3. 3.2.3 Scenario 1: Deployment
    3. 3.3 Scenario 2: Adding a second LPAR
      1. 3.3.1 Scenario 2: Target environment
      2. 3.3.2 Scenario 2: Task list
      3. 3.3.3 Scenario 2: Deployment
    4. 3.4 Scenario 3: Multiple MCATs and UCATs
      1. 3.4.1 Scenario 3: Target environment
      2. 3.4.2 Scenario 3: Task list
      3. 3.4.3 Scenario 3: Deployment
      4. 3.4.4 Scenario 4: Acquisition and integration
      5. 3.4.5 Scenario 4: Acquisition and integration environments
      6. 3.4.6 Scenario 4 Task list
      7. 3.4.7 Scenario 4 Deployment
  8. Chapter 4. Maintaining ICF catalogs
    1. 4.1 Maintenance
      1. 4.1.1 Backup of ICF catalogs
      2. 4.1.2 Reorganizing ICF catalogs
      3. 4.1.3 REPRO MERGECAT as maintenance tool
      4. 4.1.4 Other types of ICF catalog maintenance
      5. 4.1.5 Recovery of ICF Catalogs
      6. 4.1.6 ICF catalog diagnostics
      7. 4.1.7 Modify CATALOG commands
  9. Chapter 5. Record-level sharing support for ICF catalogs
    1. 5.1 RLS for catalog overview
      1. 5.1.1 Requirements for RLS
      2. 5.1.2 Support for ICF catalogs using RLS
      3. 5.1.3 ICF catalog possible RLS states
      4. 5.1.4 Comparison with other enhanced catalog features
      5. 5.1.5 New parameters on the DEFINE USERCATALOG command
    2. 5.2 Considerations for implementing RLS
      1. 5.2.1 Preparing to migrate to an RLS enabled ICF Catalog
      2. 5.2.2 Sizing the RLS catalog environment for RLS buffers and CF cache
      3. 5.2.3 Migrating to RLS enabled ICF catalog
      4. 5.2.4 Fallback from using RLS mode on ICF Catalogs
      5. 5.2.5 Catalog maintenance considerations in RLS environment
      6. 5.2.6 Using REPRO MERGECAT on an RLS-managed catalog
      7. 5.2.7 Migration considerations
    3. 5.3 Basic test results
      1. 5.3.1 Benchmarks for ICF catalogs using RLS mode
      2. 5.3.2 Documentation
  10. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: A Practical Guide to ICF Catalogs
  • Author(s): Keith Winnard, Jose Gilberto Biondo Jr, Gert Laumann, Norbert Schlumberger, Jeanne Vangsness, Chao Xing CX Ma
  • Release date: June 2015
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738440682