John McKown writes: > There is a thread over on TSO-REXX about splitting up a "string" into > "volume serials". This has occasioned two questions to me. > > 1) Has anybody ever had a VOLSER which was not exactly 6 non-blank > characters for a regularly used volume? Especially any trailing blanks?
RACF for z/VM labels its database (mini)disks with the 4-character volser "RACF" for the primary. The backup one is "RACFBK". When the RACF databases are shared between z/VM systems (for example, in any Single System Image configuration) those minidisks need to be full volumes in order for z/VM to propagate RESERVE/RELEASE. In that case, those volsers appear on the real volumes. Depending on the customer, some keep the default labels and some take the needed non-trivial actions to get RACF to use different labels. --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie Linux and System z Technical Consultant IBM UK Systems and Technology Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
