On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Juarez, David T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We just unloaded z/VM 5.3 and would like to create an alternate RES and > spool pack. Current names are 530RES and 530SPL. Does someone have simple > procedures to create alternate res and alternate spool volumes so we can IPL > off the alternates and leave the original res and spool untouched. The Guide I'm not sure this is a common approach for dealing with system changes. Maybe you z/OS background is leading you to roads where you should not be. As far as I have seen, the 530RES has a lot of service machines data disks (like the 191) and you probably should not alternate between two sets. A lot of the configuration changes that you might find in the parmlib on z/OS is less central in z/VM. There's already two parm disks on the sysres volume. If you want, you can alternate between those to provide an easy backout for the new nucleus or maybe changes to the system configuration file. If you really don't care at all about spool files, you could probably use it just to get the new NSS files over with a checkpoint IPL. But overall, I think this approach will require a lot of tinkering. Rob
