The biggest obstacle to fully draining a spool volume via 'traditional' JES2 mechanisms is the plethora of control blocks belonging to permanent tasks, especially syslog. That's why is usually takes (best case) one rolling IPL of every MAS member to free up a volume. TDMF has been performing move magic for decades and is now owned by IBM, but it might an expensive solution for a rare problem.
In R13, JES2 has a new native mechanism to move spool volumes on the fly. I'm running R13 now but haven't had the chutzpah to try out this feature. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Linda Mooney <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 10/07/2011 03:08 PM Subject: Re: SPOOL move Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Hi David, If the old vols are draining and you run an offload, type=transmit , you should be able to set it up to take off what you need to. T hen run an offload,type=receive to put them all back on the spool - on the new vols . O ff load can be restricted to select only what you want it to. HTH, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Andrews" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 1:24:10 PM Subject: Re: SPOOL move On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:07 -0400, Rick Fochtman wrote: > Dave, I submit that those "miscreants" using SPOOL for long-term storage > should have their hands slapped. Hard. I don't disagree, but I've fought that battle and can show you the scars. Bigger dogs than I want to use the spool for long-term storage and I know a large-calibre warning shot when I see one. "I MAKE the rules... I BREAK the rules." -- David Andrews A. Duda & Sons, Inc. [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
