On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:48:10 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote:
>You DO play with fire, don't you? <grin>. The IPL LNKLST cannot be >closed. Therefore the DEB will exist until IPL. Therefore, EVEN IF THE >VOLUME IS OFFLINE, it is *possible* for this system to try to do I/O to >the "offline" volume. Doing I/O to an offline volume is not the scary event it sounds like. It will work as long as there is at least one channel path still available to reach the device AND as long as the data it is expecting to find is still there, which it likely won't be if, as the original poster said (I think), all the files have been removed from the volume except for the VTOC and the VVDS. If MVS is still looking for a linklist library on the volume after it has been properly deleted, then something else is bad wrong. Even if MVS is only trying to search the missing library's directory but never accessing any of the members, something is still wrong. We are striving for greater and greater flexibility in dynamically rearranging DASD, but there are still limits beyond which it is not prudent to venture. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
