Requires software and hardware that supports it. Varies BY Vendor, and WITHIN Vendor. ICKDSF V 16+ has a REFRESH to pick up a new volume size, once changed in the hardware. Some vendors support 1 cylinder increments. EAVs (Mod 59+) must be incremented by 1113 cylinders.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) <ajn...@ufl.edu> wrote: > Wow, I guess I have that to look forward to when going to 2.2. My current > z/OS 1.13 SCUNTBL is only 64 CYL, ouch, one more nail for me to use to > convince my storage guy to give me a few Mod 27's. > > I do have a question and YES IT IS A DUMB ONE, I freely admit it, the more I > get back into z/OS, the more I do not know anymore, but I thought I had heard > of a way, could be my mind playing tricks, it does that a lot, but I thought > that there is a way to convert a Mod 9 to a Mod 27 in-place? Could be a > hardware option or at a z/OS level, or both, maybe? > > Al Nims > Systems Admin/Programmer 3 > UFIT > University of Florida > (352) 273-1298 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 1:32 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge > > After living in close quarters for some time with a single Mod-9 sysres, we > seem to have finally outgrown our britches for the next 2.1 RSU. Multiple > sysres volumes would require changes to our venerable system migration > process, which is used to populate seven different sysplexes from the SMP/E > target packs. So we're trying to procure Mod-27s in order not to have to > touch the migration mechanism. As Jerry indicates, multiple sysres volumes > would require a culture change in addition to a technical one. Bioware is the > most difficult area to manage. ;-) > > BTW the largest allocation on the sysres volume is SCUNTBL, a whopping 2769 > cylinders, far larger than distant second SCEERUN2. We could probably stay on > a Mod-9 if we treated SCUNTBL as we do ZFS files, which we migrate and manage > separately by DSN. Still the simplest solution is a bigger volume. > > . > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-302-7535 Office > robin...@sce.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 9:02 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge > > We use &SYSR1 through &SYSR5 to have a 5 pack resvol set (note these include > OMVS related HFS/ZFS - hence the number/sizes) and have no issues. Biggest > problem I have is folks inadvertently recataloging the datasets from their > indirect values while doing maintenance so we locked down the Master Cat such > that even the Sysprogs have restrictions on what they can change. > > Jerry Whitteridge > Manager Mainframe Systems & Storage > Albertsons - Safeway Inc. > 925 738 9443 > Corporate Tieline - 89443 > > If you feel in control > you just aren't going fast enough. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Lucas Rosalen > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 2:14 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge > > As far as I have seen, it's quite simple: create a &SYSR2 symbol (using > &SYSR1 and changing last char from 1 to 2, for example) and update MCAT > accordingly. > Once I've worked for a client that had 3-volumes respack. It indeed worked. > We used to keep datasets like LINKLIB, MACLIB, NUCLEUS, etc in 1st volumes > though... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *Lucas Rosalen* > Emails: rosalen.lu...@gmail.com / *lrosa...@pl.ibm.com > <lrosa...@br.ibm.com>* > LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/in/lrosalen > Phone: +48 (71) 792 809 198 > > > 2016-04-21 10:45 GMT+02:00 Jake Anderson <justmainfra...@gmail.com>: > >> Hello, >> >> From the z/OS 2.1, I have started using Mod-27 as the Load >> address(Respack) for IPLing the z/OS 2.1 LPAR. I am curious how the >> other Shops are managing when they do not options of using Mod-27 and >> they have to survive with Mod-9. I believe the Extended Indirect cataloging >> is one Options. >> >> What kind of challenges are there when the Respack is divided into two >> Volumes ? >> >> Jake > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
