On Friday, 01/11/2008 at 08:52 EST, Karl Kingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't care about the spool. Can you provide a step by step to rebuild the > NSSes and DCSSes? The steps for rebuilding the NSSes and DCSSes are in the Service Guide (Step 12, chapter 3). > Can't use SPXTAPE dump as we have no tape drives attached to either of the VM > systems. Is there a way to save the DCSSes and NSSes without a tape drive? For DCSSes you can [probably] use DCSSBKUP and DCSSRSAV commands. For NSSes, there is no IBM-supported way I can think of to copy an NSS to disk without a tape drive as an intermediary. Just recreate CMS and GCS (if needed). Fair warning: A stand-alone CP dump requires a tape drive (not VTAPE). Looking at the General Information Manual, I see that we should probably update the "Server requirements" to include a tape drive for spool file backup and stand-alone dump. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
