Maybe even easier than Brian suggested, depending on your purpose. If all you want to do is to prevent CP from complaining about the disk not being present during start-up, simply removing the disk from the list should suffice. If you want to remove the disk from the system, you will need to DETACH it from SYSTEM. If it is actively being used, it may be difficult to find a time when there are no users linked to it. In that case, you can DRAIN the device using the LINK option to prevent any new links to it.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen > Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Remove a Volume from the User_Volume_List > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:37:03 -0700, Wandschneider, Scott > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Can a volume be removed from the User_Volume_List without IPL'ing? > >If so, how? > > Yes. Two easy steps: > > 1) Update the User_Volume_List and then don't IPL. :) > > 2) DETACH the volume FROM SYSTEM after there are no more > active links to = > > mdisks on the volume. > > Brian Nielsen >
