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Temporary data sets

z/OS MVS Planning: Global Resource Serialization
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If you take no action, global resource serialization treats non-VIO temporary data sets as global resources. One reason for letting temporary data sets be global resources is that your installation can then run scratch functions (such as SCRATCH VTOC,SYS) safely at any time against shared volumes.

If your installation wants global resource serialization to treat temporary data sets as local resources, the data set names must appear in the SYSTEMS exclusion RNL. However, the format of a temporary data set name is not compatible with the format of a generic RNL entry. So a pattern entry that contains wildcard characters is necessary to extend the matching specification. The format of a temporary data set name is one of the following:
  • SYSyyddd.Thhmmss.RA000.jobname.Rggnnnnn
  • SYSyyddd.Thhmmss.RA000.jobname.dsname.Hgg
If you want GRS to treat temporary data sets as local resources, use the following RNLDEF in the appropriate GRSRNLxx parm member to create a pattern RNL entry.
  • RNLDEF RNL(EXCL) TYPE(PATTERN)
  • QNAME(*)
  • RNAME(SYS?????.T??????.RA000.*)

For more information on a pattern resource name, see How the RNL is scanned.

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