In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/10/2007
at 08:16 AM, Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>If I start JES2 with PARM='COLD,NOFMT' that will cold start the
>Checkpoint and not format the Spool spaces.
You can't do[1] NOFMT unless the online SPOOL volumes are already
formatted. You have to format the remaining SPOOL volumes sooner or
later. Do you have reason to believe that it is faster to format a raw
volume than to restore from a full dump of an already formatted
volume?
>We are just doing full volume restores of our JES2 volumes so they
>will not be allocated as new spaces. They already exist.
Then they're already formatted.
>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.
If you restored dumps of formatted SPOOL volumes then there is no need
to format them again. Is there something that you left out of your
question? Are you actually "restoring" from partial dumps?
BTW, in a past life I was always able[2] to do a warm start for DR
tests. We used FDR. YMMV.
[1] As opposed to requesting NOFMT and JES2 ignoring it.
[2] I'm not saying that it's a good idea, just that I got away with
it.
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