Use Shared or Personal?
Shared System Definitions offer an alternative to using Personal
System Definitions (see Personal System Definitions).
The advantages of using Shared System Definitions include:
- All CICSĀ® PA users can share the same definitions, avoiding duplication.
- SMF File selection for batch reporting requests is automated.
- One or more Personal System Definitions can be consolidated in to a single Shared System Definition repository by using Take-up.
- Support for SMF data in log streams.
At Report Set or HDB run time, you can choose to use either Personal System Definitions or Shared System Definitions to select the SMF input data sets, or to merge both sets of definitions. Merging Personal and Shared definitions gives great flexibility in combining systems without the need for duplicating definitions.
Use Systems in the action bar to switch between
using only Personal System Definitions, only Shared System Definitions,
or both. If you choose to use both, you can specify which is to take
precedence if there are two definitions with the same name. In the
following figure, option 5 is selected so the Personal System Definitions
would take precedence.
Figure 1. Systems action bar: Use Personal or Shared System Definitions
1. Specify Personal System Definitions...
2. Specify Shared System Definitions...
3. Use Personal System Definitions
4. Use Shared System Definitions
*. Use Personal and Shared System Definitions
6. Use Shared and Personal System Definitions