ok, let's end the philosophic discussion, wether that is an error or
not, but thank you for opening the internal problem. My customer has zVM
5.3 but no extended support. So I will not open a pmr on it. I will pay
attention to do all things correctly in case of fire.
Thank you to all who have responded and have a nice last working day and
an even nicer weekend afterwards. ;-)
kind regards
Franz Josef Pohlen
Alan Altmark schrieb:
On Thursday, 04/17/2008 at 07:36 EDT, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ok, your objection is principally correct, but first the message you
mentioned appears always also when you restore a cylinder range from a
530RES DDR DUMP to a correctly defined minidisk with RESTORE xxx TO yyy
REORDER 0. So this message ist not necessarily a problem. In fact it
appears very often and if you restore multiple DASDs or mdisks I'm sure
everyone will enter the PROMPT OFF and put the necessary commands in a
DDR PARM file.
If you get HCP725D (or HCP699I with PROMPTS OFF) when a RESTORE or COPY
fits on the target volume with no truncation, with or without REORDER,
that would be a bug (IMO, of course).
Given a source disk of 5 cyls:
COPY ALL REORDER x fails with a syntax error
COPY 0 TO 4 REORDER 1 (to a 5 cyl target) fails
COPY 0 TO 3 REORDER 1 (to a 5 cyl target) works
COPY 0 TO 4 (or ALL) to a smaller volume gives HCP725D
COPY 0 to a smaller valume gives HCP725D
COPY (anything) to a smaller volume gives HCP725D
I don't like HCP725D being displayed when DDR can perform the requested
operation with no truncation. (Of course, if all the things I don't like
in the world were fixed, what would I do? :-) )
But I wouldn't call it in unless I was on a supported level of VM. I
don't think an extended support contract on z/VM 4.4 covers this. Sorry.
I've opened an internal problem report on this. If Development agrees
that there is a problem that needs to be fixed, it will find its way into
a future release.
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.
I don't agree. DDR should not make value judgements on your RESTORE or
COPY commands. It should simply tell you if it cannot do as you asked. If
you choose to ignore the warning, well, that's not an issue with DDR.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
