> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden
>
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:28:20 -0700, Edward E. Jaffe
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Mark Zelden wrote:
> >
> >>You can still get a partial dump with dynamically allocated dump data
> >>sets (and even if there is plenty of dasd space) if the MAXSPACE dump
> >>option isn't large enough. I've had to increase it periodically on
> >>some of our larger DB2 and WAS LPARs. I think one of them is up to
> >>MAXSPACE=8000M but most are set smaller. IIRC the default is only 500M.
> >
> >Thanks for the "head's up", Mark! I just set mine to MAXSPACE=5000M.
> >That's about 10% of a dump volume.
>
> I know Ed knows this, but for the benifit of others...
>
> Don't forget to make sure you have enough aux storage to
> backup taking (potentially) multiple (potentially) large
> dumps that aren't constrained by a smaller MAXSPACE setting.
I'll second that, from embarrassing experience.... That (recursive dumping
that filled AUX) was our last unscheduled outage, around 4 - 5 years ago.
-jc-
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