Losing dumps would not be a problem. If there were any, I would log on
to OPERATNS and transfer them to disk before the shutdown.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 2:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Adding Spool Volumes
Richard,
You could lose any existing CP dump files that are still in
SPOOL when you reallocate. AFAIK, VMDUMP files go on regular SPOOL
volumes, so they shouldn't be affected. If the existing dump volumes
are becoming regular SPOOL volumes, with the same volsers and slots, I
would expect existing dumps to be intact. If you keep your dump volsers
the same, but move them to new slots, you'll lose the pointers to the
dump files.
Just make sure you SPXTAPE or DUMPLOAD existing dumps before you
shut down, and you'll be fine.
Dennis
O'Brien
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 14:13
To: [email protected]
Subject: [IBMVM] Adding Spool Volumes
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
