By full volume dump do you mean full track dump of all tracks? On my 2.10 system, a vanilla DSS full volume dump only dumps the used portions of datasets. Since JES never sets the high water mark for spool datasets, my spool packs dump pretty quickly. I've never restored one but in this case I don't think there is enough data on the tape to produce a formatted dataset.
-----Original Message----- From: Lizette Koehler [mailto:snip] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JES2 at DR Ah, all good points. But my query is now leaning towards having a clean spool at DR without the headaches. So is my assumption correct? If the checkpoint/spool space that is restored from Full Volume Dumps has a S JES2,PARM='COLD,NOFMT' that JES2 would invoke a MINI format (QUICK Format) rather than a full blown format which would happen with a brand new, never before used environment? I wish I had a test system to do the playing with, but my current shop just loves to SHARE everything. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
