Actually, Q ALLOC SPOOL will always show the space reserved for the dump files, either in ordinary spool or on the disks designated as DUMP. To keep them out of the Q ALLOC SPOOL, you must set dump off or to tape. Since no records have been written at shutdown, they will go away, to be allocated anew the next time the system is ipled.
My goal is to do as much as possible ahead of time as I possibly can so that I may minimize the duration of the outage needed for the DDRs; simplicity of process is not the issue. Even so, the process is straight-forward; n virtual machines running the same program to copy some number of disks based on a list, and clip the original pack. What could be simpler? Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Gribbin, EDS Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:30 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Moving Spool Hello Richard, If a Q ALLOC shows the SPOOL (DUMP) areas on the pack as being empty, and= there's no other data on the pack that should be preserved then, provided= the new pack is format/allocated in the same way as the old pack, I see n= o requirement to copy the contents. However, given your, "standalone" environment, DDRing it would be equally= effective and removes the need to do the format/allocate - so, overall, = I'd suggest is unlikely to take much longer and leaves you with a simpler= process to execute because there will be no exceptions to handle. Regards Jeff Gribbin
