Missing documentation for purpose of filesystems during Common Services installation.

Products

• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS

Issue/Introduction

Are the two filesystems defined within the installation of Common Services v15 required to run Common Services or are they for installation only?

 

Environment

CA COMMON SERVICES FOR z/OS 14.1 & 15.0 - z/OS supported releases - 

Resolution

Those files systems are for the USS based products: J2Z and TOMCAT.

 

These files are NOT shared accross a SYSPLEX but they can be deployed on other lpars.

 

According to this documentation at the url: 

Deploy and Configure CCS USS-Based Services

 

Using those components, there are jobs to deploy copies for run-time purposes.