A Practical Guide to ICF Catalogs

A Practical Guide to ICF Catalogs

by Keith Winnard, Jose Gilberto Biondo Jr, Alvaro Salla
Released October 2016
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738442082

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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 tasks to help you create and maintain a balanced and efficient catalog environment.

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

Chapter 5, “Record-level sharing support for ICF catalogs” describes Record Level Sharing (RLS) for Catalogs and shows the results of our tests in a controlled laboratory environment.

This version of the book is set at the IBM z/OS V2R2 level.

This publication is for readers who want to gain an understanding of ICF catalogs and the considerations and practices that surround an ICF catalog environment deployment.

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. Summary of changes
    1. October 2016, Second Edition
  6. Chapter 1. ICF Technical overview
    1. 1.1 Introduction to data nature in commercial environment
    2. 1.2 ICF catalogs overview
    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 VSAM Volume data set
      7. 1.3.7 In Storage caching
      8. 1.3.8 Catalog data space caching
      9. 1.3.9 Enhanced Catalog Sharing
      10. 1.3.10 SMSVSAM and record-level sharing
      11. 1.3.11 Catalog parmlib IGGCATxx member
      12. 1.3.12 ICF catalogs and tape located data sets
    4. 1.4 Understanding a data set catalog search
    5. 1.5 Catalog scenarios
      1. 1.5.1 Scenario 1: Single master catalog with multiple user catalogs
      2. 1.5.2 Scenario 2: Starting new LPAR that shares the master catalog
      3. 1.5.3 Scenario 3: Splitting master catalog into two systems
      4. 1.5.4 Scenario 4: System consolidation
    6. 1.6 Reporting
      1. 1.6.1 Available reporting types
    7. 1.7 Need for reviews
  7. Chapter 2. Planning ICF environments
    1. 2.1 The plan
      1. 2.1.1 Why plans are necessary
      2. 2.1.2 Technical plan expectations
      3. 2.1.3 Effect on other areas
    2. 2.2 Specifications
      1. 2.2.1 ICF technical restrictions
      2. 2.2.2 Estimating catalog size
      3. 2.2.3 Setting the control interval and control area size of a catalog
    3. 2.3 Planning considerations
      1. 2.3.1 Data Integrity
      2. 2.3.2 Continuous availability
      3. 2.3.3 Security
      4. 2.3.4 Operations
      5. 2.3.5 Documentation
      6. 2.3.6 ICF catalog performance
      7. 2.3.7 Storage management subsystem
      8. 2.3.8 Features including parmlibs and caching considerations
      9. 2.3.9 System software considerations
      10. 2.3.10 Testing environments
    4. 2.4 Housekeeping
    5. 2.5 Reporting
    6. 2.6 Monitoring and automation
      1. 2.6.1 Catalog contention detection
      2. 2.6.2 CA RECLAIM of VSAM KSDS data sets
      3. 2.6.3 Notify extents
      4. 2.6.4 Health checks done by IBM Health Checker for z/OS
    7. 2.7 Suggested practices summary
  8. 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 Target Environment
      2. 3.2.2 Task list
      3. 3.2.3 Deployment
    3. 3.3 Scenario 2: Adding an LPAR
      1. 3.3.1 Target environment
      2. 3.3.2 Task list
      3. 3.3.3 Deployment
    4. 3.4 Scenario 3: Multiple MCATs and UCATs
      1. 3.4.1 Target environment
      2. 3.4.2 Task list
      3. 3.4.3 Deployment
      4. 3.4.4 Scenario 4: Acquisition and integration
      5. 3.4.5 Target environment
      6. 3.4.6 Task list
      7. 3.4.7 Deployment
  9. Chapter 4. Maintaining ICF catalogs
    1. 4.1 Maintenance
    2. 4.2 Backing up ICF catalogs
    3. 4.3 Reorganizing ICF catalogs
    4. 4.4 REPRO MERGECAT as a maintenance tool
    5. 4.5 Other types of ICF catalog maintenance
    6. 4.6 Recovering ICF Catalogs
    7. 4.7 ICF catalog diagnostics
      1. 4.7.1 VERIFY command
      2. 4.7.2 PARM(TEST) command
      3. 4.7.3 PRINT and REPRO commands
      4. 4.7.4 Modify CATALOG commands
      5. 4.7.5 TSO LISTCAT command
  10. Chapter 5. Record-level sharing support for ICF catalogs
    1. 5.1 RLS for shared catalogs overview
      1. 5.1.1 RLS requirements
      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 ICF catalogs
      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
  11. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other publications
    3. Help from IBM
  12. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: A Practical Guide to ICF Catalogs
  • Author(s): Keith Winnard, Jose Gilberto Biondo Jr, Alvaro Salla
  • Release date: October 2016
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738442082