Once you get the directory rebuilt you'll want to start VMSECURE with the SOURCE option. This will insure your online directory and VMSECURE data
base are in synch. Brian Nielsen On Fri, 5 May 2006 15:44:31 -0000, Dusha, Cecelia Ms. WHS/ITMD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When it started to report the problem with the directory, I shutdown the >system and IPLed with the original volume. I will IPL with the new volu me >and check to see if I can do a DIRECTXA with the user direct file. (We are >using VM:Secure for directory management and as the ESM.) > >Thank you. > >Cecelia Dusha >-----Original Message----- >From: Romanowski, John (OFT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 11:10 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: zVM 5.1 Res Volume > >The problem may have originated with the VTOC IBM shipped on cyl 0 of >the VM5.1 System DDR of 510RES. It says 3340 cyls. CP doesn't care, it >knows the pack is 3339 cyls. > > You CMS ACCESS-ed the device and CMS's Q DISK reported that the VTOC >says the size is 3340 cyls. > >This 510RES VTOC bit me when our MVS folks ran a MVS tool to migrate our >VM dasd to a DS8000 storage box; their dasd migration tool compared the >VTOC size info against the actual pack size and quit if they didn't >match. > All of our VM5.1 systems had this VTOC discrepancy on 510RES and the >tool wouldn't migrate them until I fixed cyl 0. > >Anyway, as Dave Kreuter pointed out, when you re-formatted cyl 0 you >trashed the active-directory pointer. Hopefully you're in a position to >run DIRECTXA with the source directory file and update that cyl 0 >pointer. > > > >-------------------------------------------------------- >This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or >otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If y ou >received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send >it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its >attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and >delete the e-mail from your system. > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Dusha, Cecelia Ms. WHS/ITMD >Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:19 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: zVM 5.1 Res Volume > >I am experiencing a strange problem with my zVM 5.1 res volumes. > >The zVM 5.1 res volume is on a 3390 mod 3 pack. This volume should be >3339 >cylinders. It is on DASD carved from a DS6800 as 3339 cylinders. > >When I attach this volume and access it, I get the following: >LABEL VDEV M STAT CYL TYPE BLKSZ FILES BLKS USED-(%) BLKS LEFT >BLK >TOTAL >510RES 001 Z R/W 3340 3390 OS > > >I have tried the following: >DDR to a new volume >CPFMTXA FORMAT cylinder 0 >CPFMTXA ALLOCATE system areas > DRCT 1-20 > PARM 21-38 > PARM 39-128 > PARM 129-188 >SALIPL for the IPL data > >When this new volume (same name) is IPLed it says the directory is >invalid... > >Any ideas as to what I should try next to get the res volume to see >itself >as a 3339 cylinder volume? > >Thank you. > >Cecelia Dusha
