Thanks for the help.
Jim

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Nick Jones
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 5:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Need to move some DASD volumes that have system logger datasets on 
them

>From a logger perspective there is no clear answer, but there are a number of 
>tools to get off the data set.  

Logger data sets are of the form HLQ.lsname.suffix and there are staging data 
sets and offload data sets.

To get off of staging data sets you can change the duplex method for the log 
streams to stg_duplex=NO  and that will get off the data set, and then change 
it back and it can re-allocate a staging data set on the new dasd.  You'll have 
to go through a user managed rebuild after each duplex change for the change to 
take effect.

For offload data set logger keeps the most recently used offload data set for 
each log stream and on each system allocated. The data sets remain allocated 
until a new offload data set is needed because the previous one filled. This is 
a tricky condition to force.

1) you can force an offload with the samplib proc OFFLDS. S 
IXGOFLDS,LOGSTRM=lsname This is a relativley risk free option, but  if there is 
not enough log data in primary storage, it may not cause a new data set 
allocation to get off the current.

2) D logger,c,lsn=lsname,d
-- This will show you the jobs that are using the log stream, You can find then 
use the recommended method to quiesce these applications.  

3) Many but not all logger applications will automatically reconnect if they 
are disconnected.  You can do a SETLOGR FORCE,DISC,LSName=x to disconnect from 
the logstream on a system,  you might have to do this from multiple systems and 
multiple log streams to relieve all data sets used in a volume.  Disconnecting 
should cause the data sets to be unallocated.  However if applications don't 
like being disconected they may have to be restarted.

You'll have to investigate each logger exploiters behavior to see how they 
tolerate these conditions and hopefully some combination of the above will get 
you what you need.  

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