I place mine on one of the two mentioned disks in your posting. My reason is that we use DDR to backup the SYSRES packs (SYSRES packs, all disk drives needed for initial restore at our disaster recover site). I haven't looked at DFSMS in a while but some of the files MUST reside on the SFS (Shared File System, i.e. VMSERVS(VMSYS), VMSERVU(VMSYSU)).
Steve ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: DFSMS/VM Minidisk Placement When installing DFSMS/VM RMSONLY, where does one usually place the minidisks described in Chapter 5 of the Program Directory? On the system 5xxw01/5xxw02 or on an installation defined volume? Looking for help with best practices... Joseph Di Pippo Operating Systems Programmer III FRIT Computing Services Hardware Support 1-201-531-3820
