I'm trying to do a full-volume dump from OS/390 of a z/VM volume that has
minidisk on it used for Linux and I'm getting errors indicating a problem
with the VTOC. I presume we have an issue with the way we
formatted/allocated/something the volume in VM, but so far I haven't been
able to figure it out.
I've seen the "IBM Linux-z/OS dss dump/restore how-to", but that seems to
imply that volumes are assigned completely to Linux and are not VM
mini-disks. However, other things seem to imply that I should be able to
backup VM volumes from OS/390. (In fact I'm pretty sure we used to do it
back when we had VM for non-Linux purposes.)
If somebody could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it!
Thanks!
Scott Chapman
American Electric Power
Details follow:
PAGE 0001 5695-DF175 DFSMSDSS V2R10.0 DATA SET SERVICES 2003.014 07:21
DUMP FULL INDDNAME(INDD1) -
OUTDDNAME( -
OUTDD1 -
) -
CANCELERROR -
ALLEXCP -
OPTIMIZE(4) -
WAIT(2,2)
ADR101I (R/I)-RI01 (01), TASKID 001 HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO COMMAND 'DUMP '
ADR109I (R/I)-RI01 (01), 2003.014 07:21:53 INITIAL SCAN OF USER CONTROL STATEMENTS
COMPLETED.
ADR016I (001)-PRIME(01), RACF LOGGING OPTION IN EFFECT FOR THIS TASK
ADR006I (001)-STEND(01), 2003.014 07:21:53 EXECUTION BEGINS
ADR307E (001)-OPNCL(03), UNABLE TO OPEN VOLUME 430U14, 06
ADR006I (001)-STEND(02), 2003.014 07:21:57 EXECUTION ENDS
ADR013I (001)-CLTSK(01), 2003.014 07:21:57 TASK COMPLETED WITH RETURN CODE 0008
ADR012I (SCH)-DSSU (01), 2003.014 07:21:57 DFSMSDSS PROCESSING COMPLETE. HIGHEST
RETURN CODE IS 0008 FROM:
TASK 001
Which indicates:
ADR307E (ttt)-mmmmm(yy), UNABLE TO OPEN VOLUME volume_serial_number,
reason_code return_code
Explanation: DFSMSdss is unable to OPEN volume volume_serial_number for
the reason indicated by the reason code (reason_code). OBTAIN, RDJFCB, or
OPEN passed the return code (return_code). The possible reason codes are:
4 OBTAIN failure on VTOC's VTOC entry.
6 The VTOC's VTOC entry is not the first record in the VTOC.
8 RDJFCB failure.
12 OPEN failure.
16 The VM-formatted volume does not have an OS-compatible VTOC beginning
on track zero, record five.
Alternately, I tried:
PAGE 0001 5695-DF175 DFSMSDSS V2R10.0 DATA SET SERVICES 2003.013 12:34
DUMP TRACKS(0,0,3339) -
INDY(7B14) -
OUTDDNAME( -
OUTDD1 -
) -
CANCELERROR -
ADMINISTRATOR -
CPVOLUME -
OPTIMIZE(4) -
WAIT(2,2)
ADR101I (R/I)-RI01 (01), TASKID 001 HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO COMMAND 'DUMP '
ADR109I (R/I)-RI01 (01), 2003.013 12:34:57 INITIAL SCAN OF USER CONTROL STATEMENTS
COMPLETED.
ADR405E (001)-DYNA (02), DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF VOLUME 7B14 FAILED. ERROR CODE 0218.
INFORMATION CODE 0000.
ADR017E (001)-CLTSK(01), 2003.013 12:34:58 TASK NOT SCHEDULED DUE TO ERROR. TASK
RETURN CODE 0008
ADR012I (SCH)-DSSU (01), 2003.013 12:34:58 DFSMSDSS PROCESSING COMPLETE. HIGHEST
RETURN CODE IS 0008 FROM:
TASK 001
Which seems to also indicate a problem with the VTOC.
