On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Bill Fairchild <bi...@mainstar.com> wrote: > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Steve Dover > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 2:44 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Duplicate Volser > >>... my > understanding is there is no way, on a JES2 single monoplex lpar to have the > same volser mounted twice. > > There is always the hypothetical authorized program that changes both the > volume serial number stored on the DASD volume and the UCB field storing the > same info. But this would be less likely than a bug in system code, > according to Occam's Razor. Do you have any vendor products that might do > such a thing? Or that front-ends the mount process? > > Bill Fairchild > Rocket Software
Fujitsu/Sun/IBM TDMF has the Point In Time (PIT) Offline Volume Access (OVA) that make a copy of a volume so you can run your backups against the PIT copy with minimal downtime, but that does not seem to apply to this case. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
