On Friday, 06/02/2006 at 05:58 AST, David Kreuter 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One thing always comes to mind re ckpt/warm - it bugs me that they are
> allocated as perm space - I think only mdisks should get this
> allocation. An allocation of WARM/CKPT would be nice. Think I'll take
> Alan's advice and complain.

Ummm....I meant call and complain about things that don't work 
well/correctly.  (And PERM is more like the *absence* of an allocation 
type.  I.e. if it isn't SPOL, PAGE, DRCT, or TEMP, it must be PERM.)

> Yup I know a CMS mdisk allocated as PERM
> could contain CPLOAD and CONFIG, but at least it is a CMS minidisk, as
> opposed to warm/ckpt which are just blocks, not a "dataset" (whatever
> that is).

It is an organized set of data.  It is a dataset.  It just doesn't look 
like the other ones you've seen.  :-)

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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