Ed,
Looking again at your stats:
q alloc page
EXTENT EXTENT TOTAL PAGES HIGH %
VOLID RDEV START END PAGES IN USE PAGE USED
------ ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----
430RES 0792 257 390 24120 767 829 3%
430W03 075C 1802 1901 18000 240 250 1%
------ ------ ----
SUMMARY 42120 1007 2%
USABLE 42120 1007 2%
"After further review" (when is the opening kickoff this year?) it's now
clear that you
are really not paging much at all (at least not from that display). Maybe
it's not worth
your moving PAGE and SPOOL each to a separate DASD until you upgrade to
z/VM 5.2 (or later). Contacting EMC looks like your best bet.
But it you are not DASD constrained, it's always in the "best practices"
realm to
place PAGE and SPOL allocations on DASD with no other activity. After
years of
new customers reporting insufficient page and spool space on what were
really
meant as installation-starter spool/page allocations, with z/VM 5.1 IBM
changed the
"z/VM Automated Installation and Service Guide" to place them on their own
DASD volumes: 510SPL and 510PAG.
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
"Edward M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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07/21/2006 12:51 PM
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Re: HCPCLS174E using VSE SA util tape
Hello Alan,
I was IPLing both tapes in the same CMS user machine.
But I am getting the errors. Now to convince the EMC CE that these are
not
the erroneous Smoke detector errors.
Thanks for your patience, and explanations.
Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-588-4723
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ext. 40441
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
> Behalf Of Alan Altmark
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 1:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: HCPCLS174E using VSE SA util tape
>
> On Friday, 07/21/2006 at 11:24 AST, "Edward M. Martin"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello Alan,
> >
> > Unfortunately the paging volumes are on the 430RES and 430W03
> > used by lots.
> >
> > I understand that this is a CP message, but wouldn't the
> > Standalone program driving the system be doing the page request?
>
> If you IPL a standalone program in an LPAR, then there is no need for
this
> page request. It only occurs when you IPL something (anything) in a
> guest. CP cannot send a real IPL request to the device; so he has to
> simulate it. A hardware IPL doesn't have that problem.
>
> > And if it is asking the wrong page requirement request(s) would
> > that not cause the HCP message?
> >
> > And wouldn't the ICKDSF standalone get the same messages?
>
> No, and no. The error indicates that CP got an I/O error of some
sort. If
> you suspect the device is failing, running EREP and looking at the
report
> should confirm it. Of course, if EMC has already told you the device
is
> having problems, then I'd believe them.
>
> When you get a chance, move your paging and spooling areas to
dedicated
> volumes without minidisks on them.
>
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Development
> IBM Endicott
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