Defining new catalogs and CSI data sets

The next step in making the copy is allocating new user catalogs to manage the VSAM files, HFS or zFS files, and distribution libraries. The IEACLNCS job in SYS1.SAMPLIB defines three user catalogs:
  • A user catalog on TVOL2 to own the SMP/E target zone CSI data set and MMS data sets
  • A user catalog on the HFS or zFS volume to own the HFS or zFS
  • A user catalog on the first DLIB volume to manage the DLIB zone CSI data set and distribution libraries.

The user catalogs are defined using IDCAMS commands. These catalogs will not contain a large number of entries, so it is not necessary to allocate very much space for them.

Alias entries are defined to relate the new high-level qualifiers you chose for the VSAM files, HFS or zFS files, and distribution libraries to the new catalogs. This will establish the new catalogs as the owning catalogs for the VSAM and HFS or zFS files, making the volumes with their catalogs and data sets portable to other systems.

Next, new CSI data sets are defined, using the source data sets as models for allocating the new ones.

Because SMP/E CSI data sets must be initialized with the GIMZPOOL record before SMP/E can process them, both must be primed using the REPRO command:

Parent topic: Making a copy of your system software (cloning)