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:

Start of changeAt 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.End of change

Start of changeUse 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
   Start of change*. Use Personal and Shared System DefinitionsEnd of change
   Start of change6. Use Shared and Personal System DefinitionsEnd of change
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