Thanks, Alan. That is what I knew and wanted to verify (because not everything I know is true) before proceeding.
Spool will not be touched. This is only temporary because all reserved slots except for 26-35 have already been put to use. When the system is IPLed, order will be restored. Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Adding Page Packs > > On Friday, 11/14/2008 at 02:30 EST, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Can PAGE packs be added to reserved slots that are earlier > in sequence > to the > > existing page volumes? For example, if slots 1-25 are Spool. 26-35 > Reserved and > > 36-n page (n being the highest numbered slot in the configuration), > > can additional page DASD be added, temporarily, to 26-35? > > PAGING and T-DISK volumes can be placed in any slot and can > be readily moved around. Just don't try that with volumes > that contain SPOOL! The reason is that paging and T-disk > volumes don't hold persistent data - spool volumes do. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott >
