I'm not sure this is that much of an issue anymore. Years ago, in a prior life, probably while running MVS/XA, our DR plan called for allocating only one spool volume before the first IPL because the format during the cold start took such a long time. After the IPL, we would allocate the rest of the spool space and then let JES format it while we did other things in parallel,
At our last DR test a few months ago, running z/OS 1.4, my notes show that the cold start, which formatted three 3390-3 volumes, only took 2 minutes. Tom Chicklon <snip> We are running z/OS V1.7 Simple question. If I start JES2 with PARM='COLD,NOFMT' that will cold start the Checkpoint and not format the Spool spaces. Then after that finishes do I still need to format the Spool Space or will just cold starting the Checkpoint be sufficient? Or does that then just push out the format of the spool spaces? We are just doing full volume restores of our JES2 volumes so they will not be allocated as new spaces. They already exist. We are trying to reduce the time our JES2 startup takes at DR and I forget how the spool space is handled after the Cold start is completed on the checkpoint. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
