Is this supposed to be an answer to my question?

Regards,
Richard Schuh





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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Kris Buelens
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: DDR

A cylinder is not a track.  Depending on the DASD type, a cylinder might be 
composed of 12 tracks for example.  z/VSE and z/OS people have those numbers in 
their heads, z/VMers count in cylinders.

DFSMS COPY, it can read a whole cylinder with one I/O, and write with one I/O.  
Not friendly to other users of the given DASD, but makes a copy as fast as 
possibe.

2010/3/16 Schuh, Richard <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
When DDR copies one disk to another, a COPY ALL operation, does it do full 
track reads and writes, copy an entire cylinder in a single I/O, or what?

Regards,
Richard Schuh






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Kris Buelens,
IBM Belgium, VM customer support

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