Hi Scott,
I just wanted to let you that I was able to build the new system and IPL without any issues. I did not get the errors in AUTOLOG2 this time. So I must have messed up initially. I re-copied all of packs and made sure that the System Config and the Directory were pointing to the correct packs and this time I did a FORCE and the spool started fine. Thanks again for your help along with everyone else! 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] <mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 5:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Format a SPPOL VOLUME on First IPL Hi Terry -- Everything should work fine using spool from the other system - and you basically want to avoid having to rebuild your NSS/DCSS's. A FORCE is normal after coming up from a copy of your spool -- pointers have usually changed... I've occasionally been able to come up WARM, but it's rare and all depends on how off the pointers (warm/chkpoint) on your SYSRES are from the spool packs and how fast things copied. Anyway - FORCE is fine. The only thing you might want to do is to come up without AUTOLOG2 (which it sounds like you have by accident) and scratch things from spool from the old system. You should be able to issue some commands to kill most of it -- like: PIPE CP Q RDR ALL | DROP FIRST | SPECS /PURGE/ 1 W1 nw /RDR/ nw W2 nw | CP | CONS Do that 3 times - once for RDR - another for PRT - another for PUN .. and you should should have cleaned up any old junk from the old system you don't want. For your AUTOLOG2 problem -- you'll have to show us the error.. Try this: XAUTOLOG AUTOLOG2 SYNCH #SET SECUSER AUTOLOG2 * And see what messages are issued.. or you may get an error from the autolog and show us that.. Scott On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR) <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Scott, Probably don't need to. What I am doing is a DFDSS full volume copy of my test system to a new set of system and user packs. I defined some mdisks on the running system pointing to the SYSTEM CONFIG and User Directory files on the NEWRES. I made the changes to the SYSTEM CONFIG and Directory files that matched the new environment, such as new sysres, page, spool, and work volumes. Pointing to the area on the NEWRES pack that contains the User Directory is done and than defining another mdisk for NEWRES as 0 to END. Once the changes were made I issued the DIRECTXA USER DIRECT M (FM='M' is the FM that I accessed the mdisk for the Directory area on the NEWRES pack with Question: 1. Is ok to copy the spool from the other system to the new system? Are the NSS on the spool specific for each system or does it matter if this information is copied to another system? 2. When I tried to IPL this new system the first time I issued a WARM IPL this failed and I was prompted to STOP or FORCE I elected to issue FORCE. It looked like everything came up but I noticed that xautolog of the autolog2 had failed. The xautolog of autolog1 which starts RACF and a few other machines worked fine, but when aoutlog2 was executed it failed. I wrote down the error message but I left it at work. Is there a way to get any error text from the execution of the AUTOLOG2 exec like to a RDR so that I can see if there any other errors? I guess that is it for now. Thanks for the help!! 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] <mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 2:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Format a SPPOL VOLUME on First IPL 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
