Not quite true. If there is no MDISK defined to include the omitted high cylinders, the results will be perfectly good and usable. ABEND would be a hostile act in this case. At worst, DDR should end with a low return code and a message saying that n cylinders were not copied due to the discrepancy.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: curious behaviour of DDR Restore > > Alan, > > But the main reason why I think that DDR > should abend or at least give a return code other than zero > is, that when you RESTORE ALL to a minidisk which is too > small, the only result can be garbage.
