Catalog Solution Rebuild While Open tips, tricks & requirements

Requirements for Catalog Solution¿s REBUILD WHILEOPEN (RWO) and REBUILD WHILEOPEN REALLOCATE commands.

Before RWO processing:
¿ You must be running Catalog Solution¿s current maintenance level, CSL 9.0.0 PTF EC90005.
¿ Maintenance associated with the following IBM APARs MUST be applied: OA19965, OA25278, OA28457, OA23588, and OA28244 (Note: No fix exists for APAR OA28244 as yet; target date is 10/16/09.)
¿ If processing a DB2 catalog, perform a full quiesce/stop of ALL DB2 tasks that access data in the catalog.
¿ Be aware that the processing of VOLCATs is currently not supported by RWO.
¿ If a catalog is VLF and/or ECS defined and shared, it MUST be VLF and/or ECS defined across every LPAR in the Sysplex.
¿ Prior to running RWO against a catalog defined with VLF and/or ECS, it MUST be removed from VLF and/or ECS on every LPAR in the Sysplex.

Prior to RWO processing, run the following operator commands:
¿ Remove catalog from VLF and/or ECS:
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,ECSHR(REMOVE,catname)
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,NOVLF(catname)
¿ Verify the catalog was successfully removed from VLF and/or ECS:
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,ECSHR(STATUS,catname)
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,OPEN
¿ Unallocate and close the catalog:
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,UNALLOCATE(catname) and
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,CLOSE(catname)

After RWO processing, run the following operator commands:
¿ Unallocate and close the catalog:
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,UNALLOCATE(catname) and
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,CLOSE(catname)
¿ Define the catalog back to VLF and/or ECS:
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,ECSHR(ENABLE,catname)
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,VLF(catname)
¿ Verify the catalog was successfully defined to VLF and/or ECS:
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,ECSHR(STATUS,catname)
/RO *ALL,F CATALOG,OPEN

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