What is the difference between shroptions(2 3) and
shroptions (4 3) in the Def CLUSTER ??

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What is the difference between shroptions(2 3) and shroptions (4 3) in the Def CLUSTER ??..

Answer / raghu

It defines the cross-region and cross-system sharing
capabilities of the dataset. Syntax is SHR(Crvalue, CSvalue)
value 1 means multiple read OR single write (read integrity)
2 means multiple read AND single write (Write integrity) 3
means Multiple read AND multiple write 4 is same as 3, which
refreshes the buffer with every random access. default is
SHR(2 3).

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What is the difference between shroptions(2 3) and shroptions (4 3) in the Def CLUSTER ??..

Answer / satish

shropt(2 3)-->(multiple users can read and
single user can updated, mul
users can updted)
shropt(4 3)-->(same as 3 accross sys's, mul
users can updated)

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What is the difference between shroptions(2 3) and shroptions (4 3) in the Def CLUSTER ??..

Answer / daud naseem

Shroptions tells how resource used among different users. here (4 3) means 4 jobs can share the single file while 3 means 3 jobs can share file on different mvs.

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