>Absolutely no need for a VTOCIX. The same would be true of any non-SMS volume which is designed to have a minimal number of permenantly allocated datasets.
I came from a shop that was very retentive on DASD. There would be volumes added and removed from various storage groups on a regular basis. So, a database pack one week, could be a SPOOL pack the next, and a Production Batch pack, later. It was easier to give out one policy for initialisation of the pack(s). All had VTOCs a certain size, VTOCIXs a certain size and a VVDS a certain size. All were lined up at the beginning of the pack. Before and after arrays came in. Also, with the dumbing down of the storage administrator, one rule was easier to manage. There were actually three shops like that, that I worked in. The last still even after the price per unit of storage dropped from hundreds of dollars to pennies. So, I have developed a policy to protect us from ourselves. We have met the enemy and they are us! - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
