Why are you formatting the spool volume? There's probably a better way to do what you're trying to accomplish without toasting your NSS files and rebuilding everything...
Scott On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Kris Buelens <[email protected]>wrote: > Some extra word of caution: if you'd format the active spool volumes, > you will also loos all VM's saved segments, like CMS, CMSPIPES etc, > all of them will need to be recreated or restored from an SPXTAPE > backup. > > 2009/4/7 Kris Buelens <[email protected]>: > > You can format -new- spool space while VM is running. > > Anyhow: if you IPL VM with any startup you can, VM will have > > initialized its spool before you can do something. > > > > But, you should have a look on MAINT CF1, search for ICKSADSF MODULE. > > If you find it, you have the standalone ICKDSF version, that you can > > start instead of VM: > > - IPL with as loadparm SYSG or an address of a 3270 (like an ICC > > console). This will start SAPL in prompt mode. > > - in SAPL press PF9 (Filelist) and select ICKDSF > > - enter the ICKDSF statements to format whatever you want. > > When done, reipl the "normal way" > > > > 2009/4/7 Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance > > Engineering/CTR) (CTR) <[email protected]>: > >> Hi > >> > >> > >> > >> I am building a new test system and I want the first IPL to format the > spool > >> volume. Currently VM is set up to IPL automatically WARM. Where/how do I > >> change it to prompt for a Startup parameter at IPL time so that I can > >> specify the formatting of the spool volume? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Thank You, > >> > >> > >> > >> Terry Martin > >> > >> Lockheed Martin - Information Technology > >> > >> z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning > >> > >> Cell - 443 632-4191 > >> > >> Work - 410 786-0386 > >> > >> [email protected] > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Kris Buelens, > > IBM Belgium, VM customer support > > > > > > -- > Kris Buelens, > IBM Belgium, VM customer support >
