Franz your procedures worked! We are now IPLed off a different Res pack, spool and page pack. Thank you very much for your help.
David Juárez CDC eServer Systems Support (310B) IT Specialist - Systems Programmer 512-326-6116 Work -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: creating an alternate z/VM res and spool pack David, it's easier than you might think. I have done it several times with this procedure in user maint 1. attach new volumes to maint 2. copy all 530res, (if mod 3 530w01,530w02), 530pag and 530spl to new volumes with DDR. You can of course also restore them from a backup. 3. CPFMTXA device-of-530res 530rs1 LABEL (530rs1 is the new label of the new 530res disk), analog for all other volumes 4. Q MDISK 191 LOC This shows the location of the maint 191 on 530res. 5. DEF MDISK 111 startcyl-of-step4 size-of-step-4 530rs1 (The MAINT user must have OPTION DEVMAINT in user direct when using this command.) AC 111 T X USER DIRECT T C /530RES/530RS1/** (or whatever new label you have set in step3), analog for all other volumes save the changes DIRECTXA USER DIRECT T (The DIRECTORY statement in the new USER DIRECT must point also to the new res. Because it is not the active res it is only updated on disk, not made online) 6. Q MDISK CF1 LOC 7. DEF MDISK 111 startcyl-of-step6 size-of-step-6 530rs1 AC 111 T X SYSTEM CONFIG T C /530RES/530RS1/** (or whatever new label you have set in step3), analog for all other volumes eventually changes of the consoles, but this can also be overwritten with the standalone loader eventually changes of user_volume_include list etc. This depends if you want to start the new vm in 2nd level or lpar. In 2nd level the system sees only the volumes which you define to the user, in lpar it sees all the volumes it is allowed to by iocds. save the changes 8. ready to take IPL. You must do a FORCE start at first IPL Hope this helps. kind regards Franz Josef Pohlen Juarez, David T. schrieb: > > 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 for Automated Installation and Service shows how > to backup the Res and saved system and segments but the SPXTAPE > utility implies you want to restore to the current spool volume not an > alternate. Also is anyone using symbolics in system config and/or the > user directory like we do in z/OS parmlib? Thanks. > > > > David T. Juárez > > Department of Veterans Affairs > > IT Specialist > > >
