On Wednesday, 12/02/2009 at 09:02 EST, Charles Grady <[email protected]> wrote: > Understand that.. But ... the Linux system will be DOWN when the backup takes > places > and I actually placed the mdisk on cyl 0001-3337 so as to have a VTOC on cly 0 > so that > we could use z/OS to back up this system. Just appears that something has > went "boom" > and z/OS isn't seeing record 5 on cyl 0.. just trying to rebuild it..
Use CPFMTXA to put a VM-format VOL1 label on the disk. It will have a VTOC that shows no empty space. See http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/altmarka/vtoc.html. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
