>Most z/OS monitor products (Omegamon, TMON, MXI G2 etc) include a facility to >release common storage - however unless you have intimate knowledge of the >storage area that you wish to free an unplanned IPL is a very possible outcome >of your release attempt - even if the system reports the storage as "owner >gone".
>Tread carefully. Very carefully. We were doing it on test systems, because a very important project was on the go. It was very easy, because it was a (test) online sub-system running as a batch job, rather than a started task. The address space id and the jobname never matched, so we could free it under OMEGAMON. Until one day the system programmer signed on the the production system by mistake...... - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
