On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:50:44 -0800, Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@sce.com> wrote:
>There is a much lower limit to worry about than the one that prevents new >works from starting. At around 50%, SVC dump will fail with 'ASM >shortage'. This barrier has been discussed recently at SHARE. IBM agrees >that SVCDUMP's ASM calculation as implemented is too strict, but it still >carries the day. With no SVC dumps possible, many would consider a system >hobbled. > Interesting. Is there an APAR that has more detail as to when this happens? Not too long ago I know we were getting warning messages about an LPAR that had hit 50% and I'm pretty sure I saw an email from a coworker that they manually took an SVCDUMP prior to adding some additional page volumes. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
