>Well, I'm not sure if I'm coming or going on this! You and me both :)
>I just formatted a volume CDL on another RVA with >SLES8 SP2 and it shows 0% USED and 50,083 tracks FREE! First off ... could somebody tell me what an RVA is? If you just formatted a cdl disk then it should only have 2 dscbs in the vtoc; a type 4 vtoc descriptor and a type 5 freespace descriptor. So the info seems fine. >The other volume I formatted was with SLES8 SP3 and it >showed 100% USED and 0 tracks FREE! Somebody has to ask ... are you sure you typed in cdl rather than ldl? Can you confirm that it is indeed cdl and there isn't a bug that produced an ldl volume? >So the MVS guy wasn't wrong after all! He was looking >at a volume I had formatted CDL with SLES8 SP2. >So this seems to be release dependent and there IS AN >EXPOSURE if you have a lower release that SLES8 SP3. I >don't know what would happen with RedHat. I'll try >that after I get an RHEL3 system running. Doesn't make any sense. If you reformat a volume your gunna reblock and refresh: ipl records, vol label record and the vtoc itself. A format doesnt create any type 1 dscbs. If there is a bug that resulted in an ldl volume ... even if you specified cdl ... then this would make sense. I am assuming that RVA (whatever it is) looks for any/all type 5 dscbs if the vtoc track is available. If it thinks the vtoc track is missing (ldl volume) then my guess is that it would declare no datasets and %100 free. >Bottom line still seems to be - don't run DDSR on your >CDL formatted volumes! -Don
