> I am somewhat at a loss to understand how some of the problems you are > detailing happened. The only way it could have would be with an ill behaving > user written program or process.
If I remember this correctly (and I am on shaky ground here), sadump writes a 'special striping', understood fully only by IPCS. Mind you, sadump is a standalone application that does not use standard z/OS services because they are not available. Either here in old posts or even somewhere in the docs the behaviour I detailed is described, including the warning NOT to use standard utilities when copying a 'striped' (multi DASD volume) sadump. Suffice it to say, the full 63000cyls (from my recent customer) could only be copied when the customer used IPCS COPYDUMP. I was not told how they copied it when they sent me the 27000cyls. Just thought that a reminder about sadump was in order. After all, who would want to take an sadump only to be told by support that the necessary data are not in the dump? Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
