On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Michael MacIsaac <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the Virtualization Cookbooks, some of which are Redbooks and thus "IBM > documents", we recommend using the last four characters of the volser as the > DASD rdev. If this convention is followed it guarantees unique labels and > makes it easy to know which DASD is which. But that leaves only two That's definitely not the "old school tradition" where we were told to avoid volser based on real device address. You'd name the volume after the data or purpose, not on where it is sitting. Today it's probably less common to find a volume restored on another HDA when you get back in the office. Since your approach probably will have exceptions too, you'll have to use the right info anyway (rather than code 'DETACH' substr(volser,2) for example - the "lookup" stage is your friend for that...) | Rob
