On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:19:03 -0600, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, All, > >Getting ready to "transition" from SADMP from/to tape to doing it >from/to DASD. After reading the SADUMP generation doc in "z/OS 1.7 MVS >Diagnosis: Tools and Service Aids", it's still not clear whether the >"residence volume" for the SADUMP program should be a "standalone" >volume, or can be another volume that is not a page or OS RES volume. > >Could someone clarify for me? Any other volume that does not have IPL text already and is not a page volume. I've always used a dlib volume. Some people use a secondary sysres volume. > >Also, I couldn't find the previous discussion in the archives about how >many DASD volume should be available to receive the standalone dump. We >plan to use "mod-9s", but how many should we have available? Largest >LPAR will have 12 GiB central storage and run around 500 address spaces. >z9-EC box, if that makes a difference. I thought there was something in the archives. I think the FM says "a lot". :-) In a similar environment, I have 9 3390-3s. I think it all fit when I had to take a SADUMP sometime last year. In a larger environment we have 16 3390-3s. If you have access to SHARE presentations, there was one from Greg Dyck from July 2001 - session 2823. It includes information on the changes in z/OS 1.2. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - GITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
