> Then I don't understand why the utility used produced a copy > significantly smaller than the full dump. Once it was initialized on > the full 63000cyls I could see that sadump had successfully > completed, so what chance of an I/O error is there? > Any utility would not care about the content of a 'short' block > padded to full length. > > The statistics at the end of the sadump messages were clearly > showing that each of the volumes was between 30% and 35% full (they > are mod27 and I forgot the real usage number). The copy was > terminated after the third volume, is my guess.
Maybe the data set did not have all of the volumes cataloged, or they explicitly specified an incomplete list of volumes in the JCL for the utility. I have seen partial dumps sent to IBM for both of those reasons. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
