<quote> See page 8
</quote> That would be "see the 8th page of the document which is actually tagged as page 2... Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Peterson Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 11:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: EMC Timefinder Snap and Dealloc 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.PD F (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
