With IXFP you have the ability to delete a functional device (VM Volume) which will totally remove any backend storage. Doing a CMS format of a volume stills leaves a few megabytes of backend storage. You can also get reports that will show the amount space used on each functional devices. You may find that some volumes still have data on them that you were not aware of.
If you have OS390 and VM - get the OS390 version. It is kept current. Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 850.219.5184 Fax: 850.219.5050 http://www.mainline.com Ashley Chaloner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ick.ac.uk> cc: Sent by: Linux Subject: RAMAC Virtual Array Full !! on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ARIST.EDU> 12/20/2002 06:11 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port Our RVA is full and we don't know how to get the usage back down. The IBM documentation is ... less than helpful. We've offline'd 6 (out of 256) DASD, which dropped the usage by 0.5%, but we'd like it to get it little further down than that. Boths LPARs hung (got hanged?) and refused to re-IPL, with no error message at all. We have tried deallocating DASD ('DETach 10E0 SYSTEM') and labelling them as "FREE", or putting a clean CMS filesystem on, but to no avail. In fact, everything tried so far makes the usage creep up by 0.02% every hour or so. I'm told "IXFP" might be the thing we need, but I'm also told it only knows about CMS filesystems, so Linux deleted stuff never gets freed up by the RVA. Any help much appreciated. Ashley Chaloner. and just for the archives, in case anyone searches for this, before the system hang, we got the "information" message "CACHE MODERATE ALERT", which in our case meant disk unit full, which then made both LPARs fall over. And refuse to re-IPL.
