Not that I consider 3-volumes respack crazy, just wanted to point out that it works even with more than 2 volumes :) By the way, we used FILTERs in ADRDSSU job to fit each product in 1 volume the best we could - for example, our Netview was entirely in volume #2 at that time.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Lucas Rosalen* Emails: [email protected] / *[email protected] <[email protected]>* LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/in/lrosalen Phone: +48 (71) 792 809 198 2016-04-22 16:04 GMT+02:00 Nims,Alva John (Al) <[email protected]>: > Our email system was having conniption fits yesterday and I do not think > this one made it through. > > Al Nims > Systems Admin/Programmer 3 > UFIT > University of Florida > (352) 273-1298 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nims,Alva John (Al) > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Respack Volume Size Challenge > > We used multiple CSI's because a lot of the products were moved to their > own set of CSI's (ZONEINDEX was used heavily), also ALL the TARGET and DLIB > data sets (which I consider part of the SMPe data sets), SMPPTSx (multiple) > and other SMPxxxx data sets. > > Al Nims > Systems Admin/Programmer 3 > UFIT > University of Florida > (352) 273-1298 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John Eells > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 2:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge > > Nims,Alva John , Al wrote: > > You think 3 packs was crazy, for a time I worked with up to 10 packs, > now it did include the entire SMPe data sets, but what we did there was > include the primary res volume ID as part of the data set name, yep, the > copy job was huge process. Eventually the SMPe data sets were converted to > being SMS managed, so the number of actual res volumes dropped to 3. The > zFS data sets used the primary volser in the DSN. So just as Lucas wrote, > we use system symbols for the volser in the catalog. > <snip> > > I am not sure what you mean by "SMPe data sets." The SMP/E CSI data sets > should occupy a small fraction of a volume...nowhere near seven volumes! > The SMPPTS could grow to be fairly large, depending on your APPLY/ACCEPT > gap practices, but it's associated with the global zone and not the target > zone (i.e., it need not be placed on the sysres volume set). > > Can you elaborate a bit? > > -- > John Eells > IBM Poughkeepsie > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
