On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:51:12 -0400, John Kington <[email protected]> wrote:
>Mark, >>>SMS keeps space utilization information for each managed volume in the >communications dataset. By allowing multiple SMSplexes to allocate, extend >and delete datasets on the same volume(s), you will likely get these stats >out of whack. The result would be something like never allocating a dataset >to a given volume because SMS thinks the volume is full (exceeds high >threshold) or tries to allocate a dataset on a volume that does not have >enough space. If I remember correctly, the only way to clear the statistics >was to remove the volume from the SMS configuration, activate the >configuration, add the volume back to the configuration and then active the >configuration. >>> > >>I'm pretty sure I tested that also... and it still didn't help. The only >way I >found was to allocate or delete a dataset on the volume from the SMSplex. >> >Was the problem in SMS stastics or in the vtoc on the volume? You do have to turn on the DIRF bit and force an allocation to the volume to get CVAF(?) to tidy up the vtoc space information on a volume with an indexed vtoc. >Regards, >John > I've never had to do that for a volume only shared between MVS systems. But to answer your question, the space according to the VTOC is correct. It's SMS's knowledge of what is free on the volume that is not correct since it only updates the COMMDS when a data set is allocated or deleted on the volume from that SMSplex. See the post I referenced before. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
