On Fri, 29 May 2009, Kurt Quackenbush wrote: <snip> > I'm sure we could have made other choices, and I'm sure some folks on > this list will be more than happy to point them out to me. Be that as > it may, the format we landed on was and is UNIX files. It is > unfortunate you have to jump through hoops to get a set of volumes to > use for the download. Can you work with your storage admins to avoid > this in the future? > > Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development >
Kurt, Thanks for the information. I really was just curious. I only had to use z/OS resident UNIX files once, but it was to install z/OS 1.10. That was due to "something", which was never determined, on my Linux desktop causing a huge spike in Internet traffic. The LAN security gestapo disconnected my ethernet port, so no NFS to my z/OS system. I wanted to expand the UNIX filesystem SMS pool, but management is weird around here. They don't mind "offline", unused, volumes. But they track how many DASD volumes are allocated to a storage pool and get upset if the usage in a pool is too low. I just don't understand them at all. As to working with the storage admins, well, we really only had one storage admin. He was in our group (we are all multifunction). He was "let go" this last Tuesday in our ongoing "downsizing" of the entire company. He had a lot of ways of doing things that I disagreed with, but he also did 99.99% of the work, so I did things his way. In the future, I will simply take some "offline" volumes and put them in a temporary storage group when I need "short term" UNIX filesystem space and can't use NFS mounting for some reason. He didn't do that because his method was to pick an "offline" volume pretty much at random when he needed to expand a pool, and didn't bother to ask if anybody was using it, or look to see if it had any DSNs on it. He just nuked it. Oh, just for information, he was an older gentleman in his early 70s. He was already retired from IBM and was considering leaving due to the stress of the job (high blood pressure - went away on vacation, came back when he came back to work). So, thankfully, he is still doing well financially. My retirement account contains a Glock and a bullet. -- Trying to write with a pencil that is dull is pointless. Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
