This is a page disk. CP will do the screaming. After all, it is a
CP_Owned disk. And if it screams, its next action will undoubtedly cause
the DRAIN to complete :-) 

Regards, 
Richard Schuh 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stracka, James (GTS)
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:35 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Owner of a page
> 
> Martha,
> 
> Others have suggested labor intensive ways to find this.  I 
> know of no program to do it.  Perhaps you are thinking of the 
> SPOOL chain program.
> 
> However, this got me to wondering about DCSSes or NSSes.  
> What happens when a user or group of users request a DCSS or 
> NSS and do not use all of it?  Do unused portions of DCSSes 
> and NSSes get paged out or just deleted as they can be 
> reloaded if they are needed?  Where I am going with the 
> question is, could that page on the PAGE belong to a portion 
> of a DCSS or NSS that many users may eventually need?
> 
> By the way, a suggestion made to me many years ago when we 
> could not find the owner of a dataset (yes, my other 
> operating system days) on a 3330 we were converting to 3350 
> was to remove the volume and see who screams.  Nobody 
> screamed.  That might work for a minidisk but certainly would 
> make CP upset if you removed the page volume on a running 
> system and CP eventually tried retrieve it.  Do you feel lucky?
> 
> I just realized you said "3 months".  Apparently you did not 
> IPL for Daylight Saving Time so waiting for Standard Time is 
> not an option.
> 
> Good luck,
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Martha McConaghy
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:49 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Owner of a page
> 
> 
> I faintly recall that there is a way to find out who owns a 
> page out on disk PAGE space, but can't recall how.  I've got 
> a page allocation out on an old disk that is set to be turned 
> off.  Its been drained for about
> 3 months, but there is 1 page allocated that never goes away. 
>  Something that doesn't get recycled obviously owns it, but I 
> have a lot of virtual machines that never get recycled.  It 
> would help if I could figure out which owns it and just 
> recycle that one.
> 
> Any bright ideas?
> 
> Martha
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