That is absolutely the wrong thing to do. I am now suffering because someone 
else did that to dasd that is EMFFd to 3 LPARS. (It was all ZLccuu). It 
requires meticulous record keeping and is very error prone. I did wipe out a 
disk needed by one system because the records I received were not complete 
Fortunately, it was a disk that was to be used by a new system and had not been 
updated; it was easy to restore. Also, it is a huge headache if you ever 
replace your DASD. I don't know about RACF, but there is no mechanism built 
into VM:Secure for easily doing a mass update of volsers ( I know, you can 
change the volser with one command - if it is a VM:Secure .controlled disk and 
nobody is linked to it. The latter is hard to achieve around here.)

Regards,
Richard Schuh





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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Michael MacIsaac
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Duplicate VOLID's


>I do know what addresses my system disks are on,
Ah! - an argument for the convention of using the RDEV as the last four 
characters of the volser :))

"Mike MacIsaac" <[email protected]>   (845) 433-7061

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