Hi Don. ouch...didn't expect to hear that esp needs to be down...we never ever have esp down (we have the high-availability piece). We are the definitive 24x7 shop. Let me press a little on this......the number of folks here that would ever issue any kind of command (such as any of the load* commands in pagemode) is very limited and I can tell them to desist for a few minutes while a compress of the parmib (with disp=shr.........I know that also is 'bending the rules' of doing disp=old but we just cannot do that on everything..we sometimes simply must make a backup of the pds and do a compress using disp=shr and take our chances )
Other than the misc pagemode commands, what else would the ESP started tasks (master, shadow, proxies, workstation) need to access the parmlib for?
p.s I agree with you on pdse...a necessary evil at times but would rather not if I can avoid them)
thanks