On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:49:24 -0600, Tom Marchant <m42tom- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:23:23 -0600, Alan Altmark wrote: >> >>.... (I am >>mystified by tapeless mainframes. How does one take a stand-alone dump? > >DASD Perhaps in z/OS, but in z/VM, a stand-alone dump is written to tape, not dasd. A CP Hard, soft, and snap dumps are written to spool and then either SPXTAPE DUMPed to tape or DUMPLOADed onto a CMS disk and FTPed. It is, in theory, with today's larger machines, possible to create a dump that the CMS file system cannot hold. That leaves you with SPXTAPE DUMP as your only alternative. I really cannot stress enough that a z/VM system should have a tape drive available to it. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
