Hi Mark, I have never worked with a RAMAC 3 before, however, a couple of thoughts come to mind: If the RAMAC 3 supports either IBM Flashcopy Ver1 ( Volume Level Flashcopy ) or PPRC Ver1, you could 'setup' some volume(s) with IEBDG as someone else suggested. Then you could specify the 'setup' volume(s) as Flashcopy or PPRC source volume(s) to the volume(s) you want to 'erase/overlay/etc.'. Using Flashcopy or PPRC removes the burden of transfering all the data to/from the control unit to the processor and back again to the same control unit. The control unit would do all the work in the 'background' without a z/OS image being there ( after the initial Flashcopy or PPRC commands, of course ).
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