Hi Jim, Are you linking the MAINT 123 in MW mode? I didn't see this problem when installing z/VM 5.4.
-Mike -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Parm disks vs. MAINT 123 I'm seeing a strange problem with z/VM 5.4. On my 2nd level z/VM 5.4 installation system, I have the predefined PARM disks, MAINT CF1, CF2, and CF3. I also have the predefined MAINT 123 MDISK for the 540RES volume. The problem that I am seeing is that, originally, from MAINT, I could not get a write link to 540RES to load the directory using DIRECTXA and the pre-defined directory without doing a CPRELEASE A, B, and C. I still cannot even after redefining the MAINT 123 disk to the size of the DRCT space. CP Q ALLOC MAP shows that the directory space is cylinders 1-20. An ICKDSF CPVOL LIST shows the following allocation: CYLINDER ALLOCATION CURRENTLY IS AS FOLLOWS: TYPE START END TOTAL ---- ----- --- ----- PERM 0 0 1 DRCT 1 20 20 PERM 21 38 18 PARM 39 158 120 PARM 159 278 120 PARM 279 398 120 PERM 399 3338 2940 so 540RES appears to be correctly allocated. As you might imagine, this causes all kind of problems with DIRMAINT, which I installed and enabled on the 2nd level system. Has anyone seen anything like this before? It does not seem to something that is related to the CP NUC because I copied CPLOAD MODULE to my test lpar and it works as expected. Jim -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
