Offline_at_ipl

[Richard Feldman (WFF)]

Looks safe, but…   In our plan to test a new release of VSE (3.1) we plan to isolate a copy of our production VM system as a 2nd level system, then install the new VSE on this system. This scenario would give us duplicate volsers for all the volumes in the System Config. If we specify the address range of the ‘restored’ dasd as ‘Offline_at_IPL’ are we assured that this statement will be processed/respected before the Ipl proceeds so we will not encounter CP picking up our ‘restored’ volume instead of the real production volume?   Thanks in advance,     Richard Feldman                                                Senior IT Architect                                         Kelly, Douglas / Westfair Foods  Ltd.                          Ph:(403)291-6339 Fax:(403)291-6585