On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:36:29 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > Several shops I have been at (including my first >exposure to MVS) had a proc called "X" which was a copy of DEALLOC. >The operator would "VARY xxx,OFFLINE" then "S X" to "kick in" >deallocation. This goes back to at least MVS SP (which was the first >MVS I worked on).
My question is whether the enhancement to VARY OFFLINE introduced by z/OS 1.7 eliminated the "Pending offline" state and thus any need to ever issue START DEALLOC - I can't remember seeing a device in "pending offline" state in quite a while.... http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS205-167/ENUS205-167.PDF (see page 8, bullet labeled "VARY command processing improvements") Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
