The existing spool, not including dump space, volumes would remain in place on their current volumes. I do not think that, if there were no existing dumps, that relocating those two disks to different slots would be a problem. The system did not even whimper when it came up minus the first of the dump disks a short while ago. It happily allocated both dump files on the remaining disk. The operators did not notice any messages, much less have to respond to any, when the system was IPLed minus the disk. I noticed that it was missing the next day when I entered a Q ALLOC SPOOL command. It has since been IPLed with the disk present, and there was nothing out of the ordinary during the system start up.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Frazier > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 2:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Adding Spool Volumes > > You can not change the slots on spool volumes. From what you > say slots 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,16,17 contain your spool. You > must leave those as they are. You can add more spool volumes > at any slots you wish. You may move any other volumes to any > other slots you want to. > > Schuh, Richard wrote: > > My current CP Owned list looks like this: > > > > Slots Use > > 1-10 Spool > > 11-15 Reserved > > 16-17 Dump > > 18-39 Page > > 40 T-Disk > > 41-50 Reserved > > > > I need to double the spool space for upcoming events (z/TPF > dumps). I > > know that I can use slots 11-15 and 5 slots from the 41-50 range. I > > would rather keep my Spool space in one range. Would > anything break if > > I changed it so that slots 1-20 are spool and everything > else pushed > > down to higher slot numbers, as below? I know that changing > the slot > > numbers for page is no problem, and I cannot think of a good reason > > for the system to care about the placement of T-disk, but > what about the Dump? > > It is a part of Spool, but it gets reallocated at IPL. Is there > > anything that would break if the dump disks moved from > slots 16 and 17 to 31 and 32? > > > > Slots Use > > 1-20 Spool > > 21-30 Reserved > > 31-32 Dump > > 33-54 Page > > 55-64 Reserved > > 65 T-disk > > > > > > Regards, > > Richard Schuh > > > > > > -- > Stephen Frazier > Information Technology Unit > Oklahoma Department of Corrections > 3400 Martin Luther King > Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 > Tel.: (405) 425-2549 > Fax: (405) 425-2554 > Pager: (405) 690-1828 > email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us >
