RE: Creating PF's or LF's

You should just store the logicals in the library with the physicals.  Then
the restore will work and you wont have to worry about juggling library
lists.

If you have a multiple environment situation, you probably have a
consolidated data file library anyway.

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Prill, Steve [mailto:sprill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:39 AM
To: System 21 Users
Subject: RE: [SYSTEM21] Creating PF's or LF's


Bill,

The IBM Redbook "Geac System 21 - Implementation for AS/400" is an excellent
resource http:/www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245967.html
and has great examples of naming conventions.  See Chapter 11
(Customization) and page 390 for specifics.

One other thing to consider is if you create logicals over System 21
physicals you might want to have custom libraries with a name that is lower
in the iSeries sorting order.

Our custom libraries all start with the first letter of 'Z'.  The reason for
this is in the event of system restore resulting from a disaster, a disaster
test, hard drive failure, etc. when you restore your libraries it is
generally done via a RSTLIB *NONSYS or some equivalent method. These methods
restore the libraries alphabetically starting with 'A'. The restore can not
restore logical files if the physicals do not already exist on the system.

In our case all of the System 21 and other libraries will be restored before
any of our custom 'Z' libraries.

I hope this makes sense as it is a very important concept.  Worst case is
that if you did not use this library naming convention you would have to
manually recreate or restore all of your logicals after everything else was
restored in a disaster.  However, you usually have plenty of other things to
keep you busy in a disaster and this would delay recovery.

Steve Prill
Senior I.S. Project Manager
Rexair LLC

-----Original Message-----
From: system21-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:system21-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of JBA Consultant
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:08 AM
To: 'System 21 Users'
Subject: RE: [SYSTEM21] Creating PF's or LF's

Bill,

It's common practice to suffix the file or program with a U.  eg. OEP72U

Also to put the object into a non GEAC library.  Eg.  OSLRICP3 for programs
or OSLRICf3 for files.

Associate a program with a task number in the 99xxxx range.

I hope that this helps.

Marcus.

-----Original Message-----
From: system21-bounces+jba.consultant=virgin.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:system21-bounces+jba.consultant=virgin.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Bill.Geissinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 13 September 2005 19:38
To: system21@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SYSTEM21] Creating PF's or LF's

When creating new PF's or LF's does GEAC recommend customer's using a 
certain range when creating these files so you don't duplicate a GEAC file 
name that may be used in the future?  Also, is their a standard when 
creating program names also?

Bill Geissinger
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