On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:43:33 -0500, Mike Liberatore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Our storage administrator is out sick and I got the job of adding new volumes to our active SMS environment. I guess someone knew that had some SMS expierence in the past. Anyway we share SMS across three LPARS ,I know I have to define a VTOC, INDEX VTOC and since we run FDRABR so I also need to allocate a FDR file(?) on these volume(s) that I will be adding. I haven't done SMS administrative tasks in sometime. So I was wondering if someone could share with me the steps required to add volume(s) to a SMS Storage group Via ISMF and any other steps needed outside of ISMF. Can this process, adding volumes to SMS, also be done in Batch. Thanks in advance!! Unless you have ICKDSF R17, you must first vary the unit address offline to all systems. Then run ICKDSF to initialize the volumes, making sure you create the VTOC index and specify the STORAGEGROUP parameter. Then bring the volumes online to all systems. In ISMF, go to the Storage Groups section (option 6). Enter the name of the storage group and take option 4, Volume. Once there, select option 2, and enter the names of the volumes you just initialized. After the volumes have been defined to the Storage Group, go back to the ISMF main menu, and take option 8, Control Data Set. Take option 5, Activate. Follow the instruction on the screen and hope you've got security authorization correct. That's it folks <g> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
