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by Alvaro Salla, Jose Gilberto Biondo Jr, Keith Winnard
A Practical Guide to ICF Catalogs
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October 2016, Second Edition
Chapter 1. ICF Technical overview
1.1 Introduction to data nature in commercial environment
1.2 ICF catalogs overview
1.3 ICF catalog-related components
1.3.1 Catalog address space
1.3.2 Master catalog
1.3.3 User catalogs
1.3.4 VTOC
1.3.5 VTOC index
1.3.6 VSAM Volume data set
1.3.7 In Storage caching
1.3.8 Catalog data space caching
1.3.9 Enhanced Catalog Sharing
1.3.10 SMSVSAM and record-level sharing
1.3.11 Catalog parmlib IGGCATxx member
1.3.12 ICF catalogs and tape located data sets
1.4 Understanding a data set catalog search
1.5 Catalog scenarios
1.5.1 Scenario 1: Single master catalog with multiple user catalogs
1.5.2 Scenario 2: Starting new LPAR that shares the master catalog
1.5.3 Scenario 3: Splitting master catalog into two systems
1.5.4 Scenario 4: System consolidation
1.6 Reporting
1.6.1 Available reporting types
1.7 Need for reviews
Chapter 2. Planning ICF environments
2.1 The plan
2.1.1 Why plans are necessary
2.1.2 Technical plan expectations
2.1.3 Effect on other areas
2.2 Specifications
2.2.1 ICF technical restrictions
2.2.2 Estimating catalog size
2.2.3 Setting the control interval and control area size of a catalog
2.3 Planning considerations
2.3.1 Data Integrity
2.3.2 Continuous availability
2.3.3 Security
2.3.4 Operations
2.3.5 Documentation
2.3.6 ICF catalog performance
2.3.7 Storage management subsystem
2.3.8 Features including parmlibs and caching considerations
2.3.9 System software considerations
2.3.10 Testing environments
2.4 Housekeeping
2.5 Reporting
2.6 Monitoring and automation
2.6.1 Catalog contention detection
2.6.2 CA RECLAIM of VSAM KSDS data sets
2.6.3 Notify extents
2.6.4 Health checks done by IBM Health Checker for z/OS
2.7 Suggested practices summary
Chapter 3. Deploying ICF catalogs
3.1 About the deployment
3.2 Scenario 1: Simple ICF catalog environment structure
3.2.1 Target Environment
3.2.2 Task list
3.2.3 Deployment
3.3 Scenario 2: Adding an LPAR
3.3.1 Target environment
3.3.2 Task list
3.3.3 Deployment
3.4 Scenario 3: Multiple MCATs and UCATs
3.4.1 Target environment
3.4.2 Task list
3.4.3 Deployment
3.4.4 Scenario 4: Acquisition and integration
3.4.5 Target environment
3.4.6 Task list
3.4.7 Deployment
Chapter 4. Maintaining ICF catalogs
4.1 Maintenance
4.2 Backing up ICF catalogs
4.3 Reorganizing ICF catalogs
4.4 REPRO MERGECAT as a maintenance tool
4.5 Other types of ICF catalog maintenance
4.6 Recovering ICF Catalogs
4.7 ICF catalog diagnostics
4.7.1 VERIFY command
4.7.2 PARM(TEST) command
4.7.3 PRINT and REPRO commands
4.7.4 Modify CATALOG commands
4.7.5 TSO LISTCAT command
Chapter 5. Record-level sharing support for ICF catalogs
5.1 RLS for shared catalogs overview
5.1.1 RLS requirements
5.1.2 Support for ICF catalogs using RLS
5.1.3 ICF catalog possible RLS states
5.1.4 Comparison with other enhanced catalog features
5.1.5 New parameters on the DEFINE USERCATALOG command
5.2 Considerations for implementing RLS ICF catalogs
5.2.1 Preparing to migrate to an RLS enabled ICF Catalog
5.2.2 Sizing the RLS catalog environment for RLS buffers and CF cache
5.2.3 Migrating to RLS enabled ICF catalog
5.2.4 Fallback from using RLS mode on ICF Catalogs
5.2.5 Catalog maintenance considerations in RLS environment
5.2.6 Using REPRO MERGECAT on an RLS-managed catalog
5.2.7 Migration considerations
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