On Wednesday, 12/02/2009 at 09:49 EST, Scott Rohling <[email protected]> wrote: > My experience is that unless you actually do the FORMAT of cylinder 0 -- you > 'may' end up with the VTOC issue described. We had a new volume - and just > did a LABEL on it -- and had the same issue. We then did the FORMAT of
> cylinder 0 - and did not. So ever since -- my 'clip' script does a FORMAT > rather than just a LABEL - and the issue disappeared. While z/VM seems happy > enough just doing the LABEL and using it -- z/OS did not. ICKDSF CPVOLUME LABEL literally rewrites the 6-character volser. You must use FORMAT to write a VTOC. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
