No, MDSK is not that clever.  It will be after my holidays next week...

2007/9/6, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Thursday, 09/06/2007 at 08:08 EDT, Kris Buelens
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >    MDSK OLDVM.DISKACNT 191 (FILELIST DETACH
> > and the MDSK EXEC finds the MDISK in OLDVM DIRECT, ATTACHes the volume
> to
> > SYSTEM, issue DEFINE MDISK, ACCESS it, start FILELIST; when FILELIST
> ends,
> > everything gets DETACHEed again.  I'll send Anne my EXEC.
>
> But ensure the "old" volume you are working with does not have a volume
> label that matches an "offline" slot in your CP-owned list.  If it does,
> CP will start to use any non-PERM space on the volume, effectively
> preventing a DETACH.  Hopefully, MDSK does a QUERY CPOWNED first?
>
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Development
> IBM Endicott
>



-- 
Kris Buelens,
IBM Belgium, VM customer support

Reply via email to