I have a program that reads VOLSERS for offline volumes. It works fine for several flavors of VM and Z/OS, and returns the data in a few MS. But takes a minute when issued to a device in a copy pair. If I issue it a second time, it runs fast, so I suppose it could be coming from CACHE or some bit has changed that allows for the faster I/o or it gets the VOLSER form a control block.
I noticed that when I use the ISMF screen in ISPF option 2.1 it comes Up right away. So If there is anyone listening from the ISMF group, can you tell me if you do I/O to get the volser or do you get it from a control block somewhere. It would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I just sent in a correction to the manual for ISMF. Here is a line from the screen: Type of Volume List . . . 2 (1-Online,2-Not Online,3-Either) I think it should be 1 for ONLINE, 2 for OFFLINE and 3 for BOTH(not either). Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
